Hooking a fishy NYTimes reporter

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 8, 2008 07:58 PM

Newsbusters’ Jeff Poor reels one in.

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  1. #1
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:03 pm, magicarb said:

    Hmm, probably a pisces, working for scale.

    But 3 questionable fish tales? Apparently not a fluke.

    These stories give me a haddock.

  2. #2
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm, Mortis said:

    Magicarb, you’re a hoot.

    Nothing I could come up with could beat that.

    Bravo! Bravo!

  3. #3
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm, John Ansell said:

    I agree with Mortis, that’s too funny Magicarb. I was laughing at the poor authors name thinking, “that would have to suck filling out paperwork when they ask ‘Last Name First’”. Poor, Jeff.

  4. #4
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, martin.musculus said:

    So, magicarb, you listen to Dr.Demento, too, huh?

    - martin.musculus

  5. #5
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:36 pm, beenthere said:

    Well, ok, he shouldn’t plagiarize. Now, shouldn’t he do what everyone else at the NYT does: just make it up?

  6. #6
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:48 pm, doubleplusundead said:

    No wonder the NYT is beginning to flounder.

  7. #7
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, lgm said:

    The “Newsbuster” story didn’t challenge the main claims of the NYTimes article (the Salmon virus…), only a detail about the affiliation of someone quoted in the article. That must mean that the article on the whole is true.

  8. #8
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm, doubleplusundead said:

    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, lgm said:

    The “Newsbuster” story didn’t challenge the main claims of the NYTimes article (the Salmon virus…), only a detail about the affiliation of someone quoted in the article. That must mean that the article on the whole is true.

    Are you saying that we can only have this sole post to address the article? Hake, seems to me we can address the actual claims in a later post.

  9. #9
    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm, WarTip said:

    All the news that’s fit to create? Fake but accurate? Op-ed being passed off as news is so mainstream now that it is not news any more. Is that an oxymoron?

  10. #10
    On May 8th, 2008 at 9:24 pm, zorro said:

    America’s fishwrap of record.

    The NYT is junk. Plain old junk.

  11. #11
    On May 8th, 2008 at 10:14 pm, magicarb said:

    So, magicarb, you listen to Dr.Demento, too, huh?

    The Firesign Theatre, The Marx Brothers and my own crappie brain.

    Not in that order, but let’s not carp.

  12. #12
    On May 8th, 2008 at 10:36 pm, spo-con said:

    I always thought the Gray Lady was a bottom feeder.

  13. #13
    On May 8th, 2008 at 10:38 pm, spo-con said:

    Wanna buy the Times? Suckers………

  14. #14
    On May 8th, 2008 at 11:41 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    I think this thread is threatening to jump the shark.

  15. #15
    On May 9th, 2008 at 8:41 am, LarryD said:

    The “Newsbuster” story didn’t challenge the main claims of the NYTimes article (the Salmon virus…), only a detail about the affiliation of someone quoted in the article. That must mean that the article on the whole is true.

    A “detail”?

    Barrionuevo quotes Adolfo Flores in his article, identifying him as Port Director of Castro, Chiloe Island. But in a letter to the Times May 2, Eric McErlain, writing on behalf of Salmon of the Americas Inc (an industry group), pointed out major problems with the report.

    “In actuality, Mr. Flores is simply a security guard who works for a third party contractor,” McErlain wrote. “I’ve enclosed an English translation of a letter from Patricio Cuello, the general manager of the Port of Puerto Montt, which administers Castro, confirming this.”

    I’d say that’s a pretty serious lie about Mr. Flores’s affiliation, which had the effect of making Mr. Flores seem authoritative on subjects he isn’t. Grounds for questioning the veracity of the entire article, I think.

  16. #16
    On May 9th, 2008 at 9:06 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    On May 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, lgm said:
    …That must mean that the article on the whole is true.

    Yesterday you preach to US about the Bible. You are a Koran man. What do you know about the truth?

    **************************************
    Three times? He is just warming up!

  17. #17
    On May 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am, abstractmind said:

    following soap…

    nice shot ;)

    whats bad, and i posted this on the other story, was the fact that i was right, but OOPS, i forgot the dietary milk laws, and so i had to be absolutely wrong about the whole thing.

    Link that with the newsweak article here…why doesnt the same principle apply, LGM? At least I was factually correct. this guy is intellectually bankrupt, like most liberals.

    Amazing, i tell you…simply amazing.

  18. #18
    On May 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    On May 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am, abstractmind said:

    nice shot

    lgm is a boil on this blog so I take as many shots as I can. None have been deleted so far so I feel I have not stepped over the line.

    Someday, I fully expect to get banned over his antics. Until that day – I am going after every lie and thread-jack.

  19. #19
    On May 9th, 2008 at 11:07 am, Larraby said:

    The NY Times is the paper of record that produced such notables as Walter Duranty (There is no famine in the Soviet Union. There is no famine in the Ukraine. Russia under Stalin is a breadbasket)Jayson Blair (The reporter who could be everywhere at the same time), Chris Hedges (The US and Israel are responsible for all that ails the world), Anthony Lewis (who is fondly remembered for his annual trips to Syria where he would write columns called “The View from Damascus” which was always a defense of whatever slop the Assads fed to him) and Nicholas Kristof (who bragged that when Iranian secret police stopped him and asked him if he worked for the US or Israel, he (Kristof) assured that Iranians that he hated Bush and Sharon just as much or more than the Iranians did.
    It is no surprise that sloppy reporting and sloppy writing is a hallmark of life at the Times).

  20. #20
    On May 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm, lgm said:

    The story is about fish and viruses. Not even the detractors deny the fish and viruses part, so it probably is true.

  21. #21
    On May 9th, 2008 at 3:06 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    so it probably is true.

    BWAAAHHHHAAAAAAHHHHAAAAA

    That is just stoooopid.

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