Legal Commentary

Another Reason to Give Up On the Media

By Big Tent Democrat

Times Ombudsman Clark Hoyt:

Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was “slow off the mark,” and blamed “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person “a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere.”

Right, the problem with the ACORN story was it got too little attention. So now the New York Times will expressly take its cues from Fox News and the Drudge Report. The Media is dead. There really is no reason to pay attention to them anymore. (NOTE: I only found about this because some blogs wrote about it.)

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).