Craig Whitney, the NYT’s standards editor, sends an email telling the newsroom staff to avoid single-source profile stories in the wake of the Margaret Seltzer homegirl hoax because, um, well, people lie. “Live and learn,” Whitney concludes.
Live and learn?
You woulda thought the NYT would have learned that lesson a long time ago. It’s reporting 101. [...]
Stories in Debacle:
Duh
Bookstore nazis
From BoingBoing: “The Harvard Coop bookstore had the police remove students who were writing down the ISBNs of textbooks, in defiance of the store’s ridiculous position that ISBNs are ‘property.’”
Nobody says it better
Novelist Carolyn See fires off a note to the LA Times’ out-of-town owners.
So I hear you guys forced out Al Martinez. Good going! Too bad Jack Smith, Matt Weinstock and Art Seidenbaum aren’t alive so you can fire them too.
Why don’t you just cut to the chase, close down the paper and go [...]
Rallying around Jerry Roberts
More than 150 friends turned out this week to roast the former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and and raise money for his legal battle with newspaper owner Wendy McCaw.
Former state Senator Burton took the faux optimistic approach towards the predicament facing Roberts, whom he remembers as a city hall reporter who was always “a [...]
Duh
Bookstore nazis
From BoingBoing: “The Harvard Coop bookstore had the police remove students who were writing down the ISBNs of textbooks, in defiance of the store’s ridiculous position that ISBNs are ‘property.’”
Nobody says it better
Novelist Carolyn See fires off a note to the LA Times’ out-of-town owners.
So I hear you guys forced out Al Martinez. Good going! Too bad Jack Smith, Matt Weinstock and Art Seidenbaum aren’t alive so you can fire them too.
Why don’t you just cut to the chase, close down the paper and go [...]
Rallying around Jerry Roberts
More than 150 friends turned out this week to roast the former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and and raise money for his legal battle with newspaper owner Wendy McCaw.
Former state Senator Burton took the faux optimistic approach towards the predicament facing Roberts, whom he remembers as a city hall reporter who was always “a [...]
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Reality check
Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks offers her read of Margaret Seltzer’s phony South Central memoir. She is offended. Puzzled, too. And she looks for answers at the scene of Selter’s lies.
Eso Won bookstore in South Los Angeles was supposed to host the author at a book-signing Friday night but canceled and sent the [...]
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