NYT pulling the plug on Green blog

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Michael Silence

This change will allow us to direct production resources to other online projects. — More.

In other words, it was a non-revenue product.

And there’s this: This is terrible news, to say the least. When the Times announced in January that it was dismantling its three-year-old environment pod and reassigning its editors and reporters to other desks, managing editor Dean Baquet insisted that the outlet remained as committed as ever to covering the environment. Obviously, that was an outright lie.

OUCH!

Two big boo-boos at the NYT

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Michael Silence

Two recent New York Times articles included significant numerical errors that elicited howls of protest from readers and critics.

In each case, the wrong number was core to the story’s central thesis, leading some to suggest the entire article should have been retracted or completely altered. — More.

Don’t people know journalists don’t do math?

Ouch!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Michael Silence

The NYT: still holding to that age-old adage as it becomes increasingly irrelevant . . . why let the truth stand in the way of a good story? Or, in this case, a good political agenda . . . — More.

SayUncle on a NYT piece: This is likely because his piece is false or because the data doesn’t exist. What media bias?