Comments on: Mini-Transparency from NY Times Reflects Unfortunate Mindset http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-254 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:45:05 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-254 That's nothin'. How about the poor Santa Barbara women with a "Dr." in front of her name, who says that she cannot afford Times Select. What is this world coming to, where doctors are unable afford a fifty dollar subscription? (Doctors Without Borders, meet Doctors Without Columns) The Keller Q&A is turning out to be a lot of fun reading. That’s nothin’. How about the poor Santa Barbara women with a “Dr.” in front of her name, who says that she cannot afford Times Select. What is this world coming to, where doctors are unable afford a fifty dollar subscription? (Doctors Without Borders, meet Doctors Without Columns)

The Keller Q&A is turning out to be a lot of fun reading.

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-253 Seth Finkelstein Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:51:49 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-253 This is the full paragraph: "During my roughly two years as a columnist, I was probably the least opinionated opinion writer in Op-ed-land. Perhaps it's a reporter's curse, but I seemed to have a gift for seeing both sides of almost every issue. My columns, therefore, tended to be reported musings -- "Here's how I thought my way through the subject of X" -- rather than polemics. Perhaps someday I will be permitted to return to the columnist's life. If so, I expect to have some second thoughts on a variety of subjects." Sigh ... why bother ... This is the full paragraph:

“During my roughly two years as a columnist, I was probably the least opinionated opinion writer in Op-ed-land. Perhaps it’s a reporter’s curse, but I seemed to have a gift for seeing both sides of almost every issue. My columns, therefore, tended to be reported musings — “Here’s how I thought my way through the subject of X” — rather than polemics. Perhaps someday I will be permitted to return to the columnist’s life. If so, I expect to have some second thoughts on a variety of subjects.”

Sigh … why bother …

]]> By: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Uncritical regurgitation http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-251 Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Uncritical regurgitation Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:48:32 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/11/mini-transparency-from-ny-times-reflects-unfortunate-mindset/#comment-251 [...] Dan Gillmor: “Keller’s statement also reflects one of journalism’s most egregious modern tendencies: uncritical regurgitation of what people say instead of deeper truth-telling. When we get ‘both sides’ of issues where one side is essentially (or wholly) telling the truth and the other is not — and then fail to say so in plain words — we betray our principles and insult our communities.” [...] [...] Dan Gillmor: “Keller’s statement also reflects one of journalism’s most egregious modern tendencies: uncritical regurgitation of what people say instead of deeper truth-telling. When we get ‘both sides’ of issues where one side is essentially (or wholly) telling the truth and the other is not — and then fail to say so in plain words — we betray our principles and insult our communities.” [...]

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