Rainey On The Significance Of The Cronkite Errors
In today’s Los Angeles Times, media critic James Rainey ponders what it means for the New York Times that a story could go to print with so many mistakes. There were eight errors in Alessandra Stanley’s tribute to Walter Cronkite. Factual errors are an unfortunate reality when a newsoom is understaffed and overworked, but eight in a 1,200-word story might be indicative of deeper issues at the paper. Says Rainey:
The Times has a bad habit, revealed by the Stanley critique and in recent years by the Jayson Blair and Judith Miller incidents, of letting a few well-connected journalists run amok.
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