This Past Weekend on Patterico
If you don’t read this site on the weekend, you’ve missed a lot. This weekend was primarily devoted to the editing jobs that the L.A. Times did on a couple of Reuters stories. The editors removed critical information supporting the U.S. position on an important international controversy — the shooting of the car bearing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena.
It started with this post, which described the cynical editing job the paper did.
This post noted that even Al Jazeera had included the information omitted by The Times.
This post noted when the paper did it again the next day.
This post provided a link to the report on the incident.
And in this post, I set forth my e-mails to the Readers’ Representative complaining about the edits.
Plus: links to Volokh Conspiracy posts about filibusters, and a link to a great Vik Rubenfeld takedown of the L.A. Times.
WHY BLOGGERS ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING INDISPENSABLE
Pejmanesque (2ae9b5) — 5/2/2005 @ 10:51 amJust check out the attendant links to this post. Amazingly enough–despite the fact that the Blogosphere is now an established entity with lots of press surrounding its creation–it appears that there are still Big Media outlets that believe they can…
Patterico, I think this tactic of yours is so useful that you should extend it to a recap of the work-week as well. You could post it late on Friday and follow the same format: brief, half-sentence descriptions of (plus links to) the posts of the past five days (M through F).
I find it very helpful to remind myself of the bidding, so to speak.
Dafydd
Dafydd (df2f54) — 5/2/2005 @ 2:27 pm