[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Michael Dinowitz]

Well, on one hand I can ask why it was front page other than to show 'those
silly Jews again'. The NYTimes has a strong track record as being anti-semetic.
But that's besides the point. The article probably showed up in a smaller paper
or in a news service and was copied by the times. This is also standard practice
and I can point to stories that came out in many papers that were false but were
printed anyway. Why? Because each paper trusted the other and somewhere own the
line someone trusted the source. Not smart for news agencies. They should check
their sources. They don't often enough.


> At 06:24 PM 3/16/2003 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> >Besides the fact that I know the community and their beliefs, I know people
> >there. It is not unknown, especially for the NY times, to alter stories to
> >fit a
> >certain slant that they want to deliver.
>
> I'd be interested to know what kind of slant the New York Times would want
> to put on a talking fish story. Do you think there's a Times editor sitting
> in his office going "Corey, this story about the talking fish isn't
> interesting enough. I want you to punch it up a little. Throw in some
> slapstick. Make one of the guys a Gentile."?
>
> And even if the NYT would want to slant it a certain way, why would the
> Forward - http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.03.14/news15.html -  have
> the same slant?
>
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