[Leica] still more on Leica "rumor" and NYT

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

My copy of today's NYT has the headline:  "Miner's Body Found; Search 
Continues for Others."   The story's first paragragh is:    "SAGO, W. Va. 
Slowed by concerns about deadly gases, rescue teams continued their 
painstaking search for 13 men missing after an explosion in a coal mine 
here, finding one body Tuesday night.   But the teams found no trace of the 
remaining miners, as hopes for their survival faded with the passing of each 
hour."

Sounds pretty responsible to me.


> Not to klck the Gray Lady while she's down, but I heard that today's NYT 
> front page trumpeted 12 survivors from the West Virginia mine tragedy. Can 
> you say "scoop hungry?" "Unsubstantiated?" "Reckless?"
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> Who was the reporter on the scene who phoned in the report? Who was the 
> front page editor who didn't ask, "Are the survivors out of the mine? Have 
> you seen them? Have you talked with any of them? Have you spoken directly 
> with rescuers or mine officials to confirm they're alive? Do you have 
> names? Do we have pix?"
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> Basic reporting. Cool your jets and get it right. Better to be correct in 
> the late edition than early and wrong. Of course, the NYT wasn't alone in 
> its premature emotulation. Other eastern papers jumped onboard and got it 
> wrong, too. Basic reporting, boys and girls. Basic.
>
> -Chris Lawson
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> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
>> I love this...Both of those papers publish 365 days a year, and each day
>> provide how many 10s of thousands of words. The Post had a scandal in, 
>> what,
>> 1980? And the Times has been snookered a couple times, and we're talking
>> about their "style of reportage?" Get real here - their style of 
>> reportage
>> is to provide astoundingly good news coverage day in and day out - and 
>> once
>> and a while psychos - in the case of the Post and Ms. Cooke and the Times
>> and Jason Blair - or a self-aggrandizing careerist with a political 
>> agenda,
>> make it through the screening process. Big whoop. ;-)
>>
>>
>> On 1/4/06 11:34 AM, "Allen Graves" <p_intern@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>> > And don't forget the Washington Post.
>> >
>> > Allen
>> >
>> > jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote:
>> >> Hasn't this been the NYT style of repotage for years??
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> >> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com
>> >>
>> >>> Here's what may have happened:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Dec. 29, a photography site in Spain called Caborian.com ran what 
>> >>> it
>> >>> called an April's Fools item in Spanish {see its dec. 29 posting} 
>> >>> saying
>> >>> that
>> >>> in
>> >>> Spain the equivalent of April fools is celebrated on Dec. 28 and that 
>> >>> "on
>> >>> Caborian we wanted to maintain the tradition, publishing false news 
>> >>> of the
>> >>> merger of Canon and Leica." Here is the Dec. 29 posting...[it does 
>> >>> not
>> >>> mention
>> >>> Asahi Shimbun].
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
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