NYT chooses pre-war skeptic as public editor.
By on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
NYT chooses pre-war skeptic as public editor.
Clark Hoyt, who was the Washington editor at Knight Ridder through 2006, will become the New York Times’s third public editor. In an “unusual step,” New York Times executive editor Bill Keller noted to his staff that Hoyt “presided over a body of aggressive reporting in the run up to the war in Iraq — journalism that has been widely praised for sometimes being more skeptical about the pre-war intelligence than bigger news organizations, including our own.”
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Nice choice!
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:52 pmWay to go. Kick out the neocon scum.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 pmI do believe the tide is turning.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pmBill Keller’s limited mea culpa; this as close to saying he’s sorry as he’s likely to get, remembering his past behavior. He’s the one who gave Judy Miller free reign to print Curveball’s drunken ramblings as truth.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pmNice gesture, but the “public editor” has no real power.
Now, if they hired him as the managing editor …
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:57 pmWell, well. Will the TImes let him have his head, or will he kowtow to the corporatist interests who have controlled the Times’ reporting?
Or is this just a way to neuter his reporting for McClatchy for a couple of years, to keep him bound to the Public Editor’s desk?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pmThe NY Times is finally starting to figure out that they need to clean up their act or go out of business.
They were whores for Chimpy for years. They pushed the war in Iraq.
Its about time the NY Times re-discovered journalistic ethics.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pmThis is good news!
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pmIt’s a nice start.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 pmGood choice! Knight Ridder did some excellent work before the war.
No. I take that back. All they did was ask questions and print stories. They did their job. Nothing more. It’s a shame so many ceased doing that in early 2003.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 pmLike bailing on the WH Correspondents Dinner, this is more fallout from the embarassment generated by the Bill Moyers special…watch the media rediscover “hard-hitting journalism” just as the Democrats take over the country. Filegate, anyone?
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 pmThe media need to rediscover journalism and use it at the current hearings on Repuke corruption.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pmTechnically, I think Knight Ridder is much larger than the Times “organization,” but just less influential.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pmDing ding ding ding ding.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:23 pmSeveral years too late.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 pmIf anyone watche the PBS show the other night about how Knight-Ridder was essentially the only news bureau to not fall hook, line and sinker for the pre-war propaganda noise out of the Right, then we should all be glad about this appointment.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:33 pmOne step forward, 10 steps back…still have a long ways to go.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:35 pmI hope this means we are seeing a rebirth of a free press, which is the underlying foundation of a free democracy. This is an uphill battle, but we all have to engage in it.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:39 pmAnd I wonder if our troll friends think these two statements are connected.
The trolls can’t seem to figure out that they are being manipulated.
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pmNice! I liked his work with KR so much that a year or two ago I wrote to him thanking him for his detailed and fair journalism. To my surprise, he wrote me back a 2 paragraph personal response. Great to see that he is being effectively promoted to a media company that the country actually knows about… Hope it rubs off on the NYT to keep pressing until the troops are home, the truth is out, and BushCo and CheneyCo are behind bars.
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:11 pmjournalism that has been widely praised for sometimes being more skeptical about the pre-war intelligence …
not to mention CORRECT.
that bill moyers’ BUYING THE WAR was such a great,
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pmbut agravating, affirmation of this fact.
…
It’s about F*#king time…
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:58 pmMaybe he can teach his underlings a thing or two… any ex-Faux people work under him now?
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 pmi’m sure he’ll be better than calame or that spooge okrent.
anyone who can be accurately described as “skeptical” has to do a better job than okrent.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:20 pmI love it when the dominent paradigm shifts in my direction!
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:00 pm#22, my first reaction was the same as yours.
Katy, I agree, the PBS special was good, but so frustrating! I just hope that some of the White House press corpse watched it and learned from it (yeah, right, that’ll happen!)
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:34 pmIt may be belated, but it is a step in the right direction.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:48 pm