Earlier this morning I made mention of the spin of the Washington Post. Now we come to the New York Times and for that we shouldn’t have to go further than Donald Luskin: [1]
Deborah Solomon’s weekly short interviews in the New York Times Magazine are the most irritating possible example of the snotty, smarmy, smug and holier-than-thou attitude that pervades the entire enterprise that is the Times. Now “public editor” Clark Hoyt has exposed her for the fraud she is [2].
Though presented in a way that suggests a verbatim transcript, the order of the interview is sometimes altered, and the wording of questions is changed.. And, Solomon told me, “Very early on, I might have inserted a question retroactively, so the interview would flow better,” a practice she said she no longer uses. “Questions For” came under fire recently when a reporter for New York Press, a free alternative weekly, interviewed two high-profile journalists — Amy Dickinson, the advice columnist who followed Ann Landers at The Chicago Tribune, and Ira Glass, creator of the public radio program “This American Life” — who said their published interviews with Solomon contained questions she never asked.
…The Times Magazine published an angry letter from NBC’s Tim Russert, who said that the portrayal of his interview with her was “misleading, callous and hurtful.”
There’s a lot more, of course, so go RTWT. but how much more proof do we need that the press is biased, and broken? This is supposed to be the paper of record, and yet she’s pulling stuff that J-school 101 student know better than to do. and this is not to pick and Deborah Solomon so much; I’m sure there are a lot of other New York Times employees who could be labeled as the next Jayson Blair.