[lbo-talk] the NYT inventories its antiquity

[Sheldon]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [via Gakwer]
>
> <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/ttnr/Blog_standards.pdf>
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> Moderating reader comments on blogs involves the same Times ethical and
> journalistic standards that apply to articles. Our moderators' guidelines
> say they should not edit unacceptable blog comments to make them acceptable;
> if the comments contain vulgarity, obscenity, offensive personal attacks,
> say that somebody "sucks," or are incoherent, moderators are advised just to
> chuck them out. We try to encourage commenters to use their real names, and
> normally must not pick up reader comments for use in news articles without
> verifying their identity.

Interesting.  Some time in the last year Krugman posted a comment on
his blog or column on the media's complicity with the war on Iraq.  In
the comments I made a reference to Friedman's infamous comment on
Charlie Rose that Iraqis "suck on this".  I used my real name, but the
comment never appeared.  So I guess the Times comment censors are also
supposed to help the public forget how their over rated and over paid
propagandist says such outrageous BS.