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THAT’S ONE OVER-WORKED COMMITTEE
Editor and Publisher reports:
In a lengthy memo published at the newspaper’s Web site, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, announced several new policies in response to a recent report by the paper’s Credibility Committee. Among them is a fresh attempt to diversify the Times’ staff and viewpoints, and not in the usual racial or gender ways, but in political, religious and cultural areas as well.
The aim, he wrote, is “to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation.”
The New York Times has a “Credibility Committee”?
They’re going to expand their ideological diversity beyond Mercedes Maoists to include Stalinists, Bukharinites and maybe even a couple Trotskyites for street cred…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 27 at 10:41 AM • permalinkTo me the NYT’s “Credibility Committee” suggests one of two things; 1) An experiment to see if you can literally work newspaper employees to death, 2) A group that has, quite obviously, been inactive for some time now.
Posted by Major John on 2005 06 27 at 10:42 AM • permalink“The NYT Credibility Committe”
Definitely an oxymoron.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 27 at 10:45 AM • permalinkI translate this to mean something along the lines of “We don’t want to die”.
Posted by Drunk Fade on 2005 06 27 at 10:48 AM • permalinkBloggers no longer have to expose the Times’ decrepitude. It’s doing the job all by itself.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2005 06 27 at 11:52 AM • permalinkNow there’s a job I want!
Since the NYT has no credibility, the committee must have the lightest workload in history. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 06 27 at 12:25 PM • permalink“The aim, he wrote, is “to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation.”
Uh, huh. And who will define “full range”? How do you define idealogical diversity in a liberal echo chamber?
They’ll either get a bunch of wishy-washy barely-right-of-center moderates (who, to the Times bunch, will look like John Birchers), or they’ll get a bunch of John Birchers because their definition of “right wing conservative” is “evil fucker.”
Isn’t the Times Credibility Committee sort of like the SS Titanic Deckchair Rearrangement Foundation?
Posted by doug in Colorado on 2005 06 27 at 03:13 PM • permalinkI’m sorry but just which ‘prestigious’ NY daily paper hired an employee under the workplace diversity mantra and then ran for cover when it was discovered that same employee filed fake news stories from his apartment, whilst pretending to be ‘on the road’.
Credibility Committee…..puhleease!
Posted by Jay Santos on 2005 06 27 at 09:49 PM • permalinkat least they are trying for some balance the age has implemented the opposite strategy
Posted by Astonished on 2005 06 28 at 03:39 AM • permalink“NYT Credibility Committee”
Sounds like part of a George Carlin monologue (along with military intelligence, jumbo shrimp, etc.)
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2005 06 28 at 03:41 AM • permalinkThe operative word there being not “credibility” but “committee.” Isn’t forming a committee the time-honored method of pretending to want to fix a problem?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 06 28 at 02:37 PM • permalinkHey! Maybe they could bring over some editors from the Daily News and NY Post!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 28 at 08:53 PM • permalink
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The Credibility Committee - possibly the most misnamed body since the Committee for Public Safety was cutting off heads during the French Revolution.