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The Spectacle Blog
This morning, the New York Times published a letter from the mayor of Paris, France:
With all the respect and admiration I have for Ms. Kennedy’s late father, I find her bid in very poor taste, and … in my opinion she has no qualification whatsoever to bid for Senator Clinton’s seat… .
The Kennedy era is long gone, and I guess that New York has plenty of more qualified candidates to fill the shoes of Hillary Clinton. Can we speak of American decline?Bertrand Delanoë
Then, this afternoon, the Times published a correction:
Early this morning, we posted a letter that carried the name of Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sharply criticizing Caroline Kennedy.
This letter was a fake. It should not have been published.
Doing so violated both our standards and our procedures in publishing signed letters from our readers.
We have already expressed our regrets to Mr. Delanoë’s office and we are now doing the same to you, our readers.
Can we speak of New York Times decline?
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Alan Brooks| 12.22.08 @ 6:34PM
please dont hold the NYT against Jews, hold it against libs.
Jeremiah| 12.22.08 @ 6:50PM
How can you speak of the Times' decline?
They were duped by a fraud, learned of the deception, and corrected the record immediately.
I advise your readers to look into the case of Jeff Gannon, the man the Bush White House hired to ask soft-ball questions during briefings who turned out to be a male prostitute, pimp, and pornographer. Mr. Gannon visited the White Houses dozens of times and is even recorded being allowed beyond the press zones into the West Wing itself.
Who knows? Perhaps he was there to talk about Reverend Haggard, the president's closest spiritual advisor?
Alan Brooks| 12.22.08 @ 7:09PM
and who has done most to corrupt our morals ? Conservatives? no.
Jeremiah, i grew up at the very center of the counterculture, with radlibs all around. It wasnt Reverends Haggard or Bakker,
Larry Craig
or any of the sort who turned our 'culture' (culture is a construct) into filth. and not just filth, but the most tasteless disgusting but mostly just boring and irritating filth-- like an insect flying around a pile of dung.
Slime, Jeremiah. herpes. all manner of STDs.
but i'm tired of being left out of the fun; think i'll go out right this very instant and purchase a pair of bell bottomed trousers!
Alan Brooks| 12.22.08 @ 7:11PM
has anybody seen the eyebrow pencil?
my very credibility as at stake!
Jeremiah| 12.22.08 @ 7:29PM
Alan,
Very clearly you have some issues of your own to work out. God's speed.
Thomas| 12.22.08 @ 7:32PM
Mon Dieu, if only mssr. Delanoe had been available for comment before press time, this could all have been avoided.
What ever happened to verify, verify, verify?
Jeremiah| 12.22.08 @ 8:57PM
Thomas et al --
Did you guys even read the story? It was a letter to the editor, for crying out loud.
The paper slipped, no doubt about it, but we're not talking a major scandal here.
Get a grip, folks.
Ran| 12.22.08 @ 9:21PM
'Tis the season to be jolly. Permit me a wee dram of schadenfreude. I have no sympathy for Pinky Sulzberger's career, though one would regret the decline of a once great Brand.
Even if papers in general are declining, there was no need for the credibility of the New York Times to suffer such an horrendous depletion. This petty gaffe isn't the problem; it's just a small reminder of the cancer that would kill-off any attempt to morph the Brand into another medium. Credibility and Trust were the only assets to be thus transfered - had they survived. Talk about loosing grip... what a shame.
ruth| 12.23.08 @ 1:27AM
The NY Slimes is under the Dinosaur Media Deathwatch. Haha, little Pinch.
Thomas| 12.23.08 @ 7:01PM
Jeremiah,
This is the letter posted by NYT:
As mayor of Paris, I find Caroline Kennedy’s bid for the seat of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton both surprising and not very democratic, to say the least. What title has Ms. Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton’s seat? We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights. It is both surprising and appalling.
With all the respect and admiration I have for Ms. Kennedy’s late father, I find her bid in very poor taste, and, after reading “Kennedy, Touring Upstate, Gets Less and Less Low-Key” (news article, Dec. 18), in my opinion she has no qualification whatsoever to bid for Senator Clinton’s seat.
We French have been consistently admiring of the American Constitution, but it seems that recently both Republicans and Democrats are drifting away from a truly democratic model. The Kennedy era is long gone, and I guess that New York has plenty of more qualified candidates to fill the shoes of Hillary Clinton. Can we speak of American decline?
Bertrand Delanoë
Paris, Dec.
18, 2008
As you can see, it purports to be from te Mayor of Paris, France. Now, in most journalism courses, the students are taught to verify any statements purported to be made by any public official or other notable. This is journalism 101, except at the Times.