Why the NYT Didn’t Publish Goldstone’s Op-Ed, Part 2

Ben Smith at Politico has been in touch with the NY Times about why it didn't publish Goldstone's op-ed. Smith…

By Pesach Benson April 04, 2011

Ben Smith at Politico has been in touch with the NY Times about why it didn’t publish Goldstone’s op-ed. Smith writes:

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.”

That’s more legitimate than the five reasons I suggested yesterday.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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