Posts tagged as Clark Hoyt
Neutral News and the 'Times' in Jerusalem
This weekend's New York Times' public editor column was yet another doozy, covering the semi-recent news that the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief's son recently joined the IDF (before he traipses back to America to go to college). That the kid is going to great lengths to undermine his father's longstanding career is fascinating but we'll leave that for their family therapy sessions, about which: whew, good luck. Hoyt's column is unbearably dull until near the end, when he suddenly takes a side: "The Times sent a reporter overseas to provide disinterested coverage of one of the world's most intense and potentially explosive conflicts, and now his son has taken up arms for one side." That's both rather stirring and accurate! Still it doesn't have too much meaning beyond emotional appeal. READ MORE
Clark Hoyt's Reign of Error Ends in June
Much went awry in the handling of these two articles: a new freelancer was not properly vetted; e-mail in which she disclosed her personal relationship was overlooked; an editor wanted to accommodate a respected staff member even though she knew his essay was flawed. – New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt. READ MORE
Fat-Averse Cintra Wilson Is Back!
Buddhist shopping specialist (she is sort of like the Muslim bacon expert) Cintra Wilson is back on the hoof today, with a new Times Critical Shopper column. After a light stupid spanking from the criminally milquetoast Times public editor Clark Hoyt on Sunday-he doesn't understand the difference between sarcasm, indignation, irony and description, nor does he have any idea what the paper's goals are, though he reveals that neither does Times exec editor Bill Keller, really, another episode that exhibits how Keller is out of touch with much of the day-to-day operations of the paper-over her column on how J.C. Penney is overtly in favor of enormous people, she is back and heaping praise on celebrity homosexual potter Jonathan Adler. Oh Jonathan Adler. His work-product I find kitschy and repellent and irrelevant; Cintra finds it kitschy and delightful and purchasable. Outrageous! Why does Cintra Wilson find emaciated and expensive homosexual housegoods so alluring? Please go crucify her on her blog. And when is Clark Hoyt's term up? He is boring me to death, which is the biggest crime of all. Let's go to his blog and call him a slut.
