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June 2, 2003 "In fact, when it comes to many topics in which I have a professional interest, I would sooner pay attention to particular blogs than to anything published in Big Media - including the venerable New York Times," wrote John Naughton in The Observer of June 1.
June 1, 2003 I was surprised to read in the New York Times today that George W. Bush as president "has appointed several openly gay people, including James C. Hormel, the ambassador to Romania, to high-level jobs . . .." It did not sound correct to me, since I vaguely associated the name Hormel with Clinton and Luxembourg, not Bush and Romania. Andrew Sullivan points out that indeed "Hormel is a Democratic party fundraiser and was appointed by president Clinton to be ambassador to Luxemburg, a position that some Republican homophobes opposed. In fact, it was a pretty famous cause celebre at the time." Apparently the New York Times is not so authoritative a source of information as one might think, and the problem goes far beyond the one individual who recently gained fame because of his fabrications.
Newspaper writers occasionally say that newspaper articles are so much better than blogs because of the editing that newspaper articles receive, but I would say that even with newspapers, or maybe especially with newspapers, caveat lector!
New pages in June: Review of performance of Conradi's Ariadne Review of Maggie Needs an Alibi
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