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The 1st Annual Russert Award for Courage in Journalism
By Ned | February 21, 2008
Goes to the editors of the New York Times. When I suggested that they were sitting on the McCain affair story until they were sure it wouldn’t affect the primary, I understated the whole thing. Now it looks like they were basically willing to sit on the story forever.
Radar reports that the Times, which has been chasing this story at least since December, only published now because it was forced into it.
Yep - NYT uncovered a bombshell of a story and then decided to keep it under wraps only until someone else decided to do a story on the story and they published the original story to preempt it. And when they finally did publish the story, they apparently left out the part where they make any conclusive statements about anything - the whole thing is describing peoples’ reactions to something that the Times stops just short of saying every actually happened.
This is pretty straightforward, people. If there’s no story, don’t print a story. But if there is a story, and it’s a big one, then it sure would be nice of you fellas to let us know what’s up. To report it, to put it another way.
Topics: Congress, Corruption, The Media |