Comments on: Hey, New York Times, check your hyperlinks

By: zorro

zorro — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:19:26 +0000

Update 9:44am Eastern. Heh. They corrected their error.

…and it only took them what, 16 hours? Not exactly nimble, are they…

By: graysonret

graysonret — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:50:16 +0000

Well, you must be doing pretty good when the NYT tries to tie you to someone else’s mistake. It must mean you’re on their minds all the time. Got them worried. I’d call that a bonus. Reminds me of an oldie by WeFive (You were on my mind).

By: Larraby

Larraby — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:41:37 +0000

When it comes to the NY Times, nothing is ever a surprise. This is the same newspaper that assigned a left wing reporter (and I mean really, truly leftist in thought and ideology) named Deborah Sontag to the MidEast beat. She arrived for the 2000 Palestinian terror campaign and Ms. Sontag just knew, who was at fault, and it sure was not Yasser Arafat. So Ms. Sontag merrily wrote an article stating that an “Israeli military spokesman” had conceded that Israelis soldiers had murdered an innocent Palestinian. Unfortunately for Ms. Sontag, some Israelis started asking for the name of the “Israeli military spokesman” and his rank and when he made the remark and had Ms. Sontag taped the conversation. All of a sudden there was lots of backpedaling and the Times was forced to concede that the whole thing was right out of Jason Blair’s playbook.
So there is nothing that the Times can’t botch, either deliberately or through incompetence.

By: dan708

dan708 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:29:35 +0000

Wow, the Olde Grey Lady has gotten Alzheimer’s. As if we didn’t know…

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:18:50 +0000

If these dolts wrote a college paper with that level of accuracy for their quotes and references they would hopefully get a well deserved “F” …

for “fools”

In this case, you get a Pulizer Prize.

Maybe that is the ultimate dunce award…

By: Klaatu

Klaatu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Jeff Emanuel at Redstate.com.
Michelle Malkin at MichelleMalkin.com.

Looking, looking for the similarity….

Nope, not seeing it.

See, Michelle, you have to be tech savvy to understand this.

Look carefully and you will note that both addresses contain “.com” and therefore must be related. This is the depth of analysis that we have come to expect from the NYT.

By: walterc

walterc — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Jeff Emanuel at Redstate.com. Michelle Malkin at MichelleMalkin.com. Looking, looking for the similarity….

Found it, .com

By: News2Use

News2Use — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:19:33 +0000

On February 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am, Lan Astaslem said:
They’ve fixed it now… But no record of the correction. Now why am I not surprised?

Good for you to remind them.

(Correction: Earlier, Mr. Emanuel’s quote was mistakenly attributed to Michelle Malkin.)

By: GiggleStick

GiggleStick — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:54:47 +0000

I think I know how this happened. In the back of their mind, they’re constantly seething about you, and they mention “Michelle Obama” so many times in the article, that they just got stuck on Michelle. It is a rookie mistake though.

By: Boomer

Boomer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:53:24 +0000

The once great paper of record continues to circle the drain.

By: Barry F.

Barry F. — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:40:26 +0000

On February 20th, 2008 at 9:00 am, On-my-soap-box said:

Looking forward to these three words:

Out of print.

One can only hope, Soap. One can hope. And, hope that it would be soon.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:37:20 +0000

On February 20th, 2008 at 9:01 am, cpodug said:
Soap – can’t let the Sluimes go out of print – think of all the fish that will deprive of a wrap!

cpodug asks soap what he makes out of that NYT article:

I can make a broach, a pterodactyl…

By: Larraby

Larraby — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:32:04 +0000

Why are we surprised by anything at the New York Times? This is the same newspaper that refuses to use the word “terrorist” when referring to Mughniyeh, the archcriminal recently assassinated. The NY Times reporters have used increasingly romanticized language to describe this terrorist. Reporter Walton, covering the story for the Times, described Mughniyeh as “the famously elusive militant”. According to the Times, Mughniyeh is some sort of Lebanese Austin Powers, an international man of mystery. Then I remembered that when the archterrorist Zubiyeh was doing nice things like kidnapping and beheading Jeff Berg in Iraq, the Times actually called Zubiyeh, “The Jordanian fighter”.

By: Lan Astaslem

Lan Astaslem — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:30:30 +0000

They’ve fixed it now… But no record of the correction. Now why am I not surprised?

By: zorro

zorro — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:29:51 +0000

Well, the NYTimes did it again and printed another quote misattributed to me:

This can’t be! They are the professionals!