Comments on: The Disappointing New York Times https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/06/02/the-disappointing-new-york-times/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:45:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Josh https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/06/02/the-disappointing-new-york-times/#comment-769 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:45:48 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/the-disappointing-new-york-times/#comment-769 You’re welcome. I hadn’t realized there were so many letters flying around on this nagging little detail. I wonder if any of them got any response.

What you see as a troubling pattern on Iran, I see as a pattern of carelessness on nuclear proliferation (and WMD generally). No need to recite the particulars at this moment. Perhaps what a reader knows the most about is where s/he will see the most problems.

]]> By: Patrick Disney https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/06/02/the-disappointing-new-york-times/#comment-768 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:50:48 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/the-disappointing-new-york-times/#comment-768 Thanks for this, Josh. We at NIAC also sent a similar letter, and I know of at least two or three other people, all from very well respected organizations, who sent letters—all to no avail.

It strikes me that the NYT is willing to publish letters from no fewer than four of our colleagues from the nonpro community in response to the “Trouble with Zero” column, but is unwilling even to print a correction (the journalistically responsible thing to do) on the subject of Iran. I can’t say I’m surprised, since the NYT has a pattern of dealing with the Iran issue in troubling ways. Glad to hear there was a concerted effort on this, though—good letter.

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