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Posted on 07/30/2003 9:15:37 PM PDT by Timesink
Today the Times announced Keller will appoint a "public editor" to "serve as a representative for readers." They've often said they'd never never appoint an "ombudsman" like the Washington Post. And, indeed, they have not appointed an ombudsman. They've appointed a "public editor."
And today's report of the Times' "Siegal Committee" -- appointed to look into the causes and aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal -- denied that Blair was a product of the Times' affirmative action program. Keller said, "That charge, they make clear, is wrong." Yet a comment by the committee's outside members noted that Blair's rapid advancement "has all the earmarks of a social promotion." Indeed, it was not affirmative action. It was "social promotion."
Must they use euphemisms for euphemisms? After all the Times has been through, wouldn't it just be easier to be honest?
Posted by Donald Luskin at 11:18 PM
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