{"id":908,"date":"2009-09-27T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:46:06","slug":"acorn-and-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/908\/acorn-and-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN and The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Hoyt, Public Editor (ombudsman, sort of) of <em>The New York Times<\/em>, today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/27\/opinion\/27pubed.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">analyzes<\/a> the <em>Times\u2019<\/em> \u201cslow reflexes\u201d on the ACORN story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No bias or ideology there, a bunch of editors told him, they\u2019re just too busy covering \u201chealth care, two wars and the deep recession,\u201d in the words of Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Managing Editor Jill Abramson, managing editor for news, blamed \u201cinsufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio,\u201d undoubtedly forgetting that when \u201cthe New York City Council froze all its funding for Acorn and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation, there was still [no story].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But just wait, conservatives.\u00a0 Abramson and Executive Editor Bill Keller have now appointed an editor to \u201cmonitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies.\u201d\u00a0 The editor will be anonymous, so he doesn\u2019t get, in Keller\u2019s words, \u201ca bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have one point:\u00a0 Most conservatives just want newspapers that cover news (like when the local district attorney opens a criminal investigation of a major national organization) with factual, unbiased reportage, not more he said\/she said babble on \u201cbubbling controversies.\u201d\u00a0 The bubbling controversies already have outlets (such as Fox News and talk radio), which seem to be doing a lot better than the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We have one question:\u00a0 Is an anonymous editor anything like an anonymous source?\u00a0 It\u2019s just a journalistic concept with which we are unfamiliar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Hoyt, Public Editor (ombudsman, sort of) of The New York Times, today analyzes the Times\u2019 \u201cslow reflexes\u201d on the ACORN story.\u00a0 No bias or ideology there, a bunch of editors told him, they\u2019re just too busy covering \u201chealth care, two wars and the deep recession,\u201d in the words of Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,116],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}