Oct 12 2007
NYT Devalues Itself. Again. … Allows commenter(s) to smear Al Gore on Page 1
So, suddenly the NY Times decides its a good idea to put comments from random readers on its front page… don’t we have a letters to the editor section for stuff like this..?
BTW, I don’t think the comment from the “pro-Gore” side should be on the front page either. My parents, who were both award wining newspaper reporters told me when I was young that “news” reports 6 things: “Who, What, Where, When, Why and How” and that anything else is an editorial/commentary…
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