Don Luskin has been tireless in his pursuit of Paul Krugman. What kind of pursuit? Is he stalking Krugman, as Krugman claims? No, the pursuit has been one for accountability. It is one thing to
It is another entirely to turn the Times Public Editor Barney Calame towards your position on Krugman to the point where he starts hammering the paper for allowing Krugman to lie without consequence on the prestegious editorial page.
Columnist Correction Policy Isn’t Being Applied to Krugman
An Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times who makes an error “is expected to promptly correct it in the column.” That’s the established policy of Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page. Her written policy encourages “a uniform approach, with the correction made at the bottom of the piece.”
Two weeks have passed since my previous post spelled out the errors made by columnist Paul Krugman in writing about news media recounts of the 2000 Florida vote for president. Mr. Krugman still hasn’t been required to comply with the policy by publishing a formal correction. Ms. Collins hasn’t offered any explanation.
Embarrassed into action, Gail Collins finally addressed the issue this weekend, and changed her policy.
Editor & Publisher says NY Times’ Finally Runs Full Correction on Krugman Column,
NEW YORK Just days after it ran an editors’ note–under pressure from outside and within–that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News’ Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy, The New York Times finally ran a full correction on Sunday, on its editorial page, for a miscue by columnist Paul Krugman, while announcing a new policy on noting errors on that page.
Krugman had three times previously admitted getting wrong part of his Aug. 19 column about media recounts of the 2000 Bush-Gore race, but critics (ed. note: Luskin and other bloggers) kept claiming that he still hadn’t gotten it quite right. Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins wrote on Sunday that it had turned into a “correction run amok.”
After publishing his third correction on the Web, Krugman asked Collins, she wrote, “if he could refrain from revisiting the subject yet again in print. I agreed, feeling we had reached the point of cruelty to readers. But I was wrong. The correction should have run in the same newspaper where the original error and all its little offspring had appeared.”
Congratulations to Don Luskin, The Krugman Truth Squad and the legions of other citizen journalists who have helped educate the New York Times how to manage and handle corrections. If only they were not so scared, they could learn alot from the lowly citizen journalists.
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