Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

Re:Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, wil... by themitigating on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:27PM (#36796574)

A newspaper is not a single entity. In its life it will have hundreds or thousands of employees with a range from good to bad.

Here a more recent article from the NYT examining the original reporting about the Bush scanner story showing how it was mostly misleading.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/politics/fact-check-pr... (See EDIT at bottom for pastebin link)

For any single news organization over a period of time a certain amount of articles will be inaccurate sometimes purposefully. The NY times has been around for 100+ years now.

What matters it is how they deal with it and the number of stories that were accurate. The NYT times is probably responsible for more breaking news and investigations than any other paper in US history. Stories we might not have have known about otherwise without the resources they allocated and their sources (like contacts in the government)

I don't think trust is black and white and that people who claim it is may have an anterior motive. If you dismiss news organizations based on having a few misleading stories without considering what they have accomplished you wouldn't trust any news organization. This of course would greatly benefit corrupt governments and businesses.

EDIT: Here's a pastebin link to the section of the 2018 article where they examine the original reporting

https://pastebin.com/VKHyGARK

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Re:Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, wil... by detourdog on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:11AM (#36799939)

I gave up on the NYT with the Judith Miller WMD non-sense. The NYT failed the United States during the run up to the Iraq war. All they had to do was honestly report what they knew.

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