smirk's hump - NYT nixing article - Okrent speaks out - gets reply

[donsu]

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2059

Daniel Okrent, public editor of the New York Times, today sent a letter to Extra! editor Jim Naureckas in response to Extra!'s story, "The Emperor's New Hump: The New York Times Killed a Story That Could Have Changed the Election-- Because It Could Have Changed the Election," by Dave Lindorff.

The story, about the Times' spiking a story about Bush wearing a device under his suit during the presidential debates, appeared in Extra!'s January/February 2005 issue, and can be read online at http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012. The article includes a sidebar presenting Okrent's take on the controversy.

Okrent's letter follows, along with a response from Lindorff:

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(Okrent's letter was a bunch of nothing and Lindorff's reply is full of facts)


I like that idea I saw of using the enlarged picture of smirk and his hump as flyers, in emails, billboards, etc. and papering the world with it.

[Warpy]

1. They spiked that story for NOTHING

The average, fear manipulated Bushbot doesn't give a rip that is boy emperor is so stupid he has to have an audio device feeding him the answers to all them tough questions with all them big words.

He only cares that men can't marry each other in HIS church.

[librechik]

2. ouch

why do I keep feeling I'm sinking in quicksand?

[Patiod]

3. God this is depressing

I'm going to go look at that picture of Sen Boxer and the roses again.

[cybildisobedience]

4. This makes me sick

and furious.
I want to smack so many "journalists," that I can't even figure out how to line them up -- by height, alphabetically, or by "rage" factor.
Top of the line-up - Howard Kurtz, Okrent, Judith Miller, Leslie Blitzer, Tweety, Russert -- I wouldn't know where to stop....