Interesting essay on the Jayson Blair affair focusing on the NYT's "undercurrent of alarm about the dangers of technology" betrayed by their investigation. "The tone of The Times article reveals a nagging institutional anxiety about the tools of Jayson Blair's trickery, but Blair's story is a story of bad reporting and deplorable ethics, not a cautionary tale about technology." The paper has announced that it is forming a committee to examine its editing system, in part to assess whether it should change in light of technological advances.
(From kuro5hin.org )
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
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