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Ron Jackson Comments on Shoddy New York Times Journalism

Per my post on the lopsided New York Times story about Marchex and domain names:

"Quite right frank – this is simply shoddy and dishonest journalism and something that no self-respecting media outlet should tolerate – especially one that has had a reputation for accuracy like the NY Times. Letting reporters color news pieces with their own biases used to be a no no. But today newspaper editors and reporters are being laid off left and right as their branch of media continues to wither and die on the vine. I guess it is not surprising that those very scared people continually lash out at the force that is on the way to putting them out of business – but whatever the excuse – it is still simply bad journalism and in the end that will come back to bite them in the [caboose]."

I can only hope Ron. If anyone deserves a good bite in the posterior it’s the author of that piece.

This entry was posted by Frank Schilling on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at 11:46 AM and is filed under Current Affairs, Friends and Family. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Bill Henson says:

    A right-on read Ron except for the allusion of the N Y Times having a reputation for accuracy. Maybe many years ago.

  2. Sahar Sarid says:

    This is (false) link-baiting at its best. With declining readership and business, who can blame them?

  3. Andrew Hyde says:

    Paper is a thing of the past. I read several posts by Frank stating this very position, now the AP urging the news industry to get with it. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_hi_te/ap_curley_2