NYT Public Editor on Clinton Story: 'Less speed. More transparency'
"...a mistake waiting to happen. Or, in this case, several mistakes."
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in on the paper’s handling of its story on a Justice department inquiry into whether emails on Hillary Clinton‘s personal account contained classified information.
In the Times’ initial story, presented and promoted like a blockbuster scoop, the inquiry was depicted as a criminal probe and Clinton was the direct subject of that investigation. As the Times walked back those original contentions, it received a lot of heat, both for its reporting errors and the way it handled corrections, which were made to the story without much explanation about the reasons for those corrections.
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