The good news: The complaints about references made to GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne’s now-defunct front group, American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), have resulted in the New York Times dropping the reference to ACVR from yesterday’s front-page article, to which we referred yesterday, with no small amount of disgust.
The bad news: The Times didn’t bother to note their error (at least not in this online version of the story) as one would expect, as per transparent, journalistic ethics. More disturbingly, nor did they bother to note Hearne’s continuing paid-partisan position as the GOP’s top “voter fraud” scammer-in-chief, pushing for disenfranchising Photo ID laws around the country, his role in writing the very laws he’s quoted discussing, his discredited and debunked ACVR group or their participation revealed at the heart of the U.S. Attorney Purge which pushed out Republican attorneys for not pursuing non-existent cases of “voter fraud” with enough fervor, or even his post as the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. who mislead Congressional members during hearings on these matters in 2005.
The story now refers to him only as “a lawyer from Missouri who has been a strong advocate for voter ID laws.” Almost sounds like Honest Abe Lincoln, don’t it?
In other words, the infamous GOP snake-oil salesman Hearne has been cleansed of his baggage by the New York Times themselves. So, apparently, he remains in good stead as a source when it comes to the Times, NPR, etc. Credibility, apparently, is not a necessary quality for sources quoted by such organizations. Nor, apparently, is transparency.
What’s next for the Times? Quoting Ahmed Chalabi as an unimpeachable source claiming Sadam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction? Oh, wait, never mind…
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NYTimes Public Editor, Clark Hoyt: public@nytimes.com
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Brad, this was pretty good…was it you?
Editorial
The Myth of Voter Fraud
Sellout NYT – wiping bush ace after it deficates on America once again. US mass media jounalistic watch dog turn pathetic lap dog provides cover for the treasous criminal douchebag Thor Hearne.
I suppose 19? little arabs with boxcutters caused the global collapse of 3 WTT steel concrete buildings on 9-11 at near free fall speed where high tech super thermate has been recently positively identified. The 3rd Tower, a traditional controlled demolition, was not even hit by a plane.
Imagine that. Support without question NY Times and straight into 2 US wars based on total bushit. Your work is well documented.
Picky, picky, picky! Yer just never satisfied. What a complainer you are! Haven’t you got anything better to do? Get a life! Get out of your mother’s basement! Nutter! Tin foi… uh, oh, er… sorry, guess I starting to drift… Give ’em hell, Brad!
I remember the story of the NFL linebacker who was, (unbeknownst to him – being from West Virginia) an apologist for an infamous NFL Coach Bear Bryant.
When asked about the coach, he replied “He is very fair, he treats us all like garbage.”
Brad is very fair, he treats all the MSM like garbage. The NYT is included in this, when Brad sedd:
That criticism of NYT is as it should be in the eyes of many eyes.
Meanwhile, the true bloggers, at least 99 of them, are still missing since 10/27.
Meanwhile 99 or so american women bloggers treat everyone like garbage. So … fair my
ladyluddite bootlicker.Now why would the NYT suck up to Hearne? The people behind Hearne are wealthy and powerful. They value loyalty uber alles. Now loyalty can be expensive, but hey, no problem if you’ve got enough money and power. These people are used to just buying anything they want with bribes or blackmail or whatever it takes.
Seems to me that some money probably changed hands here…
Such corruption.
Expecting the New York Times news pages to show any journalistic ethics is like expecting Rethuglicans to give a damn about Democracy — it’s just plain stupid.
The New York Times News Pages are really not much better than Fox News. They regurgitate the Rethuglican talking points, belittle opposition, and generally promote the goals of the Administration. They are professional propogandists.