Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:29:19 -0500 From: / dave / <arouet at winternet.com>
(Received this afternoon.)
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/ dave /
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:53:20 -0400 To: / dave / <arouet at winternet.com> From: Andrew Rosenthal <andyr at nytimes.com> Subject: Re: A Glaring Omission In-Reply-To: <3815FB3A.7850E98B at winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
The Times is well aware of the reporters in the Guardian, the Observer and Politiken. We have assigned reporters to follow up and when we have the facts, we will publish an article. That is the responsible journalistic course. We have been criticized by the organization FAIR, which accuses us of ignoring or, worse, covering up these articles. That is grossly unfair and simply not true, as FAIR might have found out if anyone from that organization had bothered calling someone at the Times.
Thanks for taking the time to write. Andrew Rosenthal Foreign Editor The New York Times
At 02:04 PM 10/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Andrew Rosenthal,
>
>What, pray tell, does the New York Times hope to gain by willfully
>ignoring the published findings of the London Observer vis-a-vis the
>"accidental" Chinese embassy bombing?
>
>The degree to which your paper pursues other items of interest, pressing
>or not, with regard to China-US relations would seem to indicate either
>a severe case of myopia or an unspoken agenda in the case of the
>embassy.
>
>Which is it?
>
>We'd not been considering cancelling any of our institutional
>subscriptions, but the above omission could push any rational person
>over the line. Surely you're not leaving anything of comparable import
>out as well? - hurricanes, floods?
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