Letters to the Editor

NBC and McCaffrey's coordinated responses to the NYT story Emails obtained between NBC executives and the retired General further underscore NBC's gross indifference to journalistic ethics. Glenn Greenwald [2008-12-01]

• In Tanta's words

  It's a disease that permeates the top that includes politicians, pundits, and the press. The blogger Tanta (RIP) said it about those who wrote analysis on financial pages and I think the same can be said here:

  "The rest of the time, Tanta liked to chew on the follies of regulators, the idiocies of lenders and — a particular favorite — clueless reporters, which according to her was just about all of them. She did not approve, she once wrote, of “parading one’s ignorance about mortgages in an article full of high-minded tut-tutting over ignorance about mortgages.”

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/01tanta.html?_r=1

  The wagons circle and the Villager's cower behind the carcasses of their dead ideas while their gushing sycophants in the press shoot back at the DFH savages who are attacking with slings and arrows (and the pen).

  -- der
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