All the News That's Fit to Neuter
Marty Kaplan
HuffPost
When the obituary for American journalism is eventually written, a milestone in the journey to its death-rattle will surely be the column that the New York Times' ombudsman, Clark Hoyt, wrote on Sunday.
Hoyt's job is to hold the feet of the Times to the flames of journalism's highest standards.
What bothered him on Sunday was that Times business staffers like Andrew Ross Sorkin, Gretchen Morgenson, and Floyd Norris not only report economic news under their bylines, but that they also, on some days, write opinion columns.
One example that ticked Hoyt off was Gretchen Morgenson's coverage of a House oversight hearing on credit-rating agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's, coupled with her column three days later on the same topic. Why, Hoyt asked, is it OK for Morgenson "to write a straight news article about the hearings and then give her personal opinion about them in a column"?
(More here.)
HuffPost
When the obituary for American journalism is eventually written, a milestone in the journey to its death-rattle will surely be the column that the New York Times' ombudsman, Clark Hoyt, wrote on Sunday.
Hoyt's job is to hold the feet of the Times to the flames of journalism's highest standards.
What bothered him on Sunday was that Times business staffers like Andrew Ross Sorkin, Gretchen Morgenson, and Floyd Norris not only report economic news under their bylines, but that they also, on some days, write opinion columns.
One example that ticked Hoyt off was Gretchen Morgenson's coverage of a House oversight hearing on credit-rating agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's, coupled with her column three days later on the same topic. Why, Hoyt asked, is it OK for Morgenson "to write a straight news article about the hearings and then give her personal opinion about them in a column"?
(More here.)
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