Comments on: Alessandra Stanley ‘Especially Embarrassing’ to the NYT? http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: URL http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-1020362 URL Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:16:33 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-1020362 <strong>... [Trackback]...</strong> [...] Read More here: mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/ [...]... … [Trackback]…

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]]> By: horvendile http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2521 horvendile Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:13:54 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2521 I'd like to know how you reconcile "a prolific writer much admired by editors for the intellectual heft of her coverage of television" with "a television critic with a history of errors" who evidently needs her own full-time editor just to get her facts straight. In the real world, this would describe two different people. I’d like to know how you reconcile “a prolific writer much admired by editors for the intellectual heft of her coverage of television” with “a television critic with a history of errors” who evidently needs her own full-time editor just to get her facts straight. In the real world, this would describe two different people.

]]> By: Fred Farrar http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2494 Fred Farrar Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:13:09 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2494 So it boils down to this: why should any of us care what this "much admired" or "prolific" writer thinks about television, if she doesn't care enough to make even a cursory attempt to be accurate? Sad she is never described as being attentive to details or meticulous. Sadder still she is still employed by the Times. If it doesn't have its accuracy to fall back on, what -- aside from an assiduously researched, checked, double and triple-checked crossword puzzle -- does it offer us? If we can't believe even simple, easily checked facts in such a public story, why should we trust it on the overwhelmingly complex issues like health care international events or finance coverage? Why should we ever trust that its "informed sources" exist outside a reporter's mind? Sadly, after a lifetime of loving and trusting what I have read in the Times, I no longer do. So it boils down to this: why should any of us care what this “much admired” or “prolific” writer thinks about television, if she doesn’t care enough to make even a cursory attempt to be accurate?
Sad she is never described as being attentive to details or meticulous.
Sadder still she is still employed by the Times.
If it doesn’t have its accuracy to fall back on, what — aside from an assiduously researched, checked, double and triple-checked crossword puzzle — does it offer us?
If we can’t believe even simple, easily checked facts in such a public story, why should we trust it on the overwhelmingly complex issues like health care international events or finance coverage?
Why should we ever trust that its “informed sources” exist outside a reporter’s mind?
Sadly, after a lifetime of loving and trusting what I have read in the Times, I no longer do.

]]> By: neilsanderson http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2489 neilsanderson Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:33:51 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2489 Glynnis is exactly right in saying that Clark Hoyt doesn't mince words in his review of this highly embarrassing incident. I wonder how many news organizations would be as forthcoming as the Times in publicly acknowledging the failures of named staff. Many, I think, would simply blame their systems and promise to do better. Glynnis is exactly right in saying that Clark Hoyt doesn’t mince words in his review of this highly embarrassing incident. I wonder how many news organizations would be as forthcoming as the Times in publicly acknowledging the failures of named staff. Many, I think, would simply blame their systems and promise to do better.

]]> By: Puter Boi http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2484 Puter Boi Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:31:16 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2484 What is most surprising about this story.....is the fact that anyone is surprised. What is most surprising about this story…..is the fact that anyone is surprised.

]]> By: KatrinasmediaAngel http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2478 KatrinasmediaAngel Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:13:32 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2478 A month isn't long enough to find mistakes - oh please. A month isn’t long enough to find mistakes – oh please.

]]> By: tdhurst http://www.mediaite.com/print/alessandra-stanley-especially-embarrassing-to-the-nyt/#comment-2476 tdhurst Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:26:17 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=8968#comment-2476 How many other professions would allow this kind of crap? I bet my boss would consider firing me if I was this bad. And we're all overworked and hurried. Why is that an excuse anymore? How many other professions would allow this kind of crap? I bet my boss would consider firing me if I was this bad. And we’re all overworked and hurried. Why is that an excuse anymore?

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