The ombudsman of the New York Times, in his current column, decides somewhat incoherently, that the paper was wrong to blow the whistle on a semi-secret government spying program targeting, among others, U.S. citizens. If the job of the press isn’t to tell us when such things are going on, then the press has no […]
Posts on ‘October 22nd, 2006’
Blogging From Home Saves Day for Newspaper Website
At the Providence Journal, where a systems glitch made for big problems, Sheila Lennon volunteered: to stay home and take emails from reporters and editors. I would publish The Providence Journal’s breaking news on the Web by myself all day from our home den, barefoot. I would email headlines, permalinks and timestamps back to the […]