Comments on: Meanwhile, Solid Reporting from NY Times http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152459 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:08:40 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152459 Wow, I look like a fool. How strange-- when I posted my comment on Sunday, I don't remember at all seeing Jarvis's coment there. But let me clarify, when I said "do much more" it was clear that Hoyt was pointing in the direction of making it a database, and not just doing it more <i>often</i>. Wow, I look like a fool. How strange– when I posted my comment on Sunday, I don’t remember at all seeing Jarvis’s coment there. But let me clarify, when I said “do much more” it was clear that Hoyt was pointing in the direction of making it a database, and not just doing it more often.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152438 Jon Garfunkel Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:28:08 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152438 Ironically, Clark Hoyt wrote about this very thing in his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02pubed.html" rel="nofollow">column</a> today. But, like me, he felt that the Times could do much more: "The Times, with its own rich Web offerings on the presidential campaign, would do well to showcase a similar fact-checking feature." Ironically, Clark Hoyt wrote about this very thing in his column today. But, like me, he felt that the Times could do much more:

“The Times, with its own rich Web offerings on the presidential campaign, would do well to showcase a similar fact-checking feature.”

]]> By: Jeff Jarvis http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152433 Jeff Jarvis Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:17:08 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152433 Agree Dan. Note also the public editor piece in the times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02pubed.html?_r=1&n=Top/Opinion/The%20Public%20Editor&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">today </a>wishing this were done more often. Agree Dan. Note also the public editor piece in the times today wishing this were done more often.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152420 Jon Garfunkel Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:08:15 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/11/30/meanwhile-solid-reporting-from-ny-times/#comment-152420 Is it news when the <i>Times</i> does something right? ;-) But I'll play contrarian yet again here. Under the theory of <i>faceted information design</i>, it should be one click from falsehoods-of-Guiliani to falsehoods-of-other-candidates. On the <i>Times</i> website, it is not. <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_not-quite_truth_about_nyc.html" rel="nofollow">FactCheck.org's Guiliani article</a> comes closer. And under the theory of <i>reputation drives recognition</i>, I still haven't heard a substantive reply from anybody at the Times to my lengthy TimesSelect study, so shouting to the wind continues... Is it news when the Times does something right? ;-)

But I’ll play contrarian yet again here. Under the theory of faceted information design, it should be one click from falsehoods-of-Guiliani to falsehoods-of-other-candidates. On the Times website, it is not. FactCheck.org’s Guiliani article comes closer.

And under the theory of reputation drives recognition, I still haven’t heard a substantive reply from anybody at the Times to my lengthy TimesSelect study, so shouting to the wind continues…

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