tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post3951592037307643416..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: The NY Times issues a correction, too little and too late.Patrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-40543117171760757672011-04-25T13:45:54.899-04:002011-04-25T13:45:54.899-04:00Back in 1982, a writer, Christopher Jones, penned ...Back in 1982, a writer, Christopher Jones, penned an article about travels in Cambodia that was written from France. The author was tripped when Alexander Cockburn, then press critic at the Village Voice, noted that Mr. Jones ripped off Andre Malraux's <i>The Royal Way</i> with his description of being left with the image of an old Cambodian strumming on his guitar.<br /><br />1985, the NYT Magazine print an article on the "new" scholarship on the Vietnam War. On the magazine cover, Douglas Pike appeared in front of his chalkboard with the word ideological misspelled.<br /><br /><br />Go read <b>Corruptions of Empire</b> by Alex and see the many ways and many instances when the NYT go it wrong.edharrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-60346519600812011582011-04-25T07:53:09.740-04:002011-04-25T07:53:09.740-04:00Anyone who is teaching for any length of time in t...Anyone who is teaching for any length of time in the NYC schools system would know how poorly are children are really doing under the control of our education mayor.His statistics to show great improvement has been one big fabrication from the start.I have a friend who is a professor at one of our community colleges and he will tell you how poorly prepared our graduates really are in the basic skills.<br />Thank you for exposing another falsehood from the clueless media when it comes to education in our city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-342724836771149142011-04-24T23:06:53.807-04:002011-04-24T23:06:53.807-04:00I have seen this as well; the more trivial the mis...I have seen this as well; the more trivial the mistake, the more likely the NYT is to run a correction. Because, after all, how could they make a mistake on anything important?Leonie Haimsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317355552298136811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-44936180205159599892011-04-24T22:53:53.140-04:002011-04-24T22:53:53.140-04:00I went to the maximum effort to get the NY Times t...I went to the maximum effort to get the NY Times to correct a clearly inaccurate statement -- it was a significant though inside baseball-y school food issue inaccurately accusing our San Francisco cafeterias of discriminating against low-income students. (I'm a parent volunteer member of the committee that oversees our district Wellness Policy.) <br /><br />I pushed it to the point that an editor actually had to directly tell me (paraphrasing): No, we don't think that's significant enough to correct.<br /><br />The day I got the e-mail from that editor, the NYT ran a correction on this: They had misspelled the name of the cosmetics line Helena Rubinstein, spelling it Rubenstein. This leaped out at me as my husband's and kids' last name is Rubenstein -- and showed just what they DO view as "significant" enough to correct.carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-5581765428973030522011-04-24T22:42:46.686-04:002011-04-24T22:42:46.686-04:00Good lord. And who really wants to go through the ...Good lord. And who really wants to go through the trouble of seeing to it that the NYT gets its stuff right. Gotta be a full time job. Thanks for your work!james boutinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625944306253098621noreply@blogger.com