6. juni 2003

New York Times editors resign Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd have resigned from the New York Times after the scandal starting when it was revealed that the young reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarised stories and invented quotations. The scandal didn't stop there, however, many mounting criticism on the way the NYT attributed stories and in particular Raines' autocrathic style of leadership. Mickey Kaus of Slate had just started a Howell Raines-O-Meter to estimate the chance of his resignation (modelled on the earlier Saddam-meter estimating the chance of war), but it had a short run indeed. Kaus argues that without the Internet, there would be little chance that the pressure would mount strong enough to force Raines to quit. 1:17:16 AM    comment []

Guardian correction and retraction Here is the correction to the deleted Guardian article which misquoted and misrepresented Paul Wolfowitz. Again, it was the blogsphere that exposed fraud in the mainstream media. Secular Blasphemy saved a copy of the original article for future reference, and for those of you who missed it: Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil, by George Wright According to the retraction, the article did not appear in the print edition. 12:31:03 AM    comment []

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