5 Reasons the NY Times Spiked Goldstone’s Mea Culpa
April 4, 2011 12:23 by Pesach Benson
Here are five reasons why the NY Times rejected publishing Judge Goldstone’s about-face.
5. The paper’s new motto is “All the news that’s fit to punt.”
4. Pinch Sulzberger knows that people shelling out $15.00 a month for NYT content prefer Ahmed Yousef over a retired South African Jew.
3. Bad luck: Annie Lennox was guest editor that day.
2. After comparing word clouds of the Goldstone report and the mea culpa, the editorial staff decided the op-ed didn’t sufficiently bash Israel.
1. Goldstone’s reference to Hamas “terrorism” violated NY Times policy on the word’s usage.
UPDATE April 5: Ben Smith of Politico got this comment from the NYT:
Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy emails, “We did in fact receive an Op-Ed submission from Richard Goldstone on March 22, but that piece bears no resemblance to the one that was published in the Washington Post on Sunday.”
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Steve Mann
4:46 pm
Apr 04, 2011
I dont know much about the NY times- what I do know is my last visit to Manhattan in 2010 saw a change that I would never have dreamt would be-
Halal kiosks where there were hot dog stands- Yellow cabs blaring Asian music instead of the local radio stations top 20s- I even missed the fun I trying to make my Russian cab driver understand where I wanted to go.
Then I tuned into my hotel TV to see an Imam talking in Arabic-
Needless to say I have not and will not return!
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Len Kurtz
6:46 am
May 30, 2012
Actually, it should be ‘All the news that printed to fit’.
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Headman
10:11 pm
Jan 30, 2013
The motto of the Times was changed years ago from “All the news that’s fit to print” to “All the news that fits”. We know what they think fits, and it aint good!
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