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News & ArtsFriday, September 21, 2012
Media New York Times No Longer Letting Sources Approve Quotes
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM
I can't believe they were doing it, in what sounds like a widespread way, in the first place—now, no more*.
And David Carr on the topic this past Sunday, with a way with words as always:
Now that it’s become clear that many journalists covering politics and government agree to quotation-approval as a condition of access, it’s tough not to see the pageant of democracy as just that: a carefully constructed performance meant to showcase the participants in the best light**.
*This new public editor is pretty good, for a lady!
**Someone should tell Mitt!
3
Yay, but I would edit a sentence in Margaret Sullivan's memo:
"The practice [of 'quote approval'] risks giving readers a mistaken impression that we are ceding too much control over a story to our sources."
should read
"...risks giving readers the undesirable realization that we are ceding too much control..."
"The practice [of 'quote approval'] risks giving readers a mistaken impression that we are ceding too much control over a story to our sources."
should read
"...risks giving readers the undesirable realization that we are ceding too much control..."
4
You don't live in a Democracy, you live in a Corporate Personhood controlled Republic of elites.
Just ask Al Gore, our President.
Just ask Al Gore, our President.
5
I had the same reaction: When in unethical hell did the NYT START letting sources review their quotes? I figured crappy blogs and unprofessional publications did this, but the NYT?!? Good for ending it now, I guess. But how many years back of articles should I disregard as PR fluff pieces, and which ones? Fucking media.
6
I haven't trusted the reporting in The New York Times or NPR for over a decade. Nice to see that the Times, at least, is proving me right.
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