A request of its Public Editor after today's NY Times apology

...So, Ms Margaret Sullivan, in your diligent and thankless Public Editor efforts: perhaps you might devote some moments to the first-person critiques of ours listed below, and let us know if you feel your colleagues "got it right" on those earlier occasions. We feel quite sure they did not, and though we are accustomed to being ignored, we do wish more people understood better how editorial discretions tend to be exercised at 620 8th Avenue.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
19 November '13..

We wrote here ["14-Nov-13: To really understand about terrorism's victims, can't beat the New York Times"] a few days ago about the abysmal editorial decisions that led to an article about a sleeping youngster, freshly inducted into the IDF to do his national service, being slashed to death while he lay asleep on a bus. The NYTimes editors, it will be recalled, chose to illustrate that only-too-familiar episode with a sympathy-evoking photograph of the knifer's mother. Our complaint echoed those of many other people.

Today there's an apology by the Public Editor of the NY Times, Margaret Sullivan, under the heading "Photo of Palestinian Mother Was the Wrong Choice". A brief extract:

Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the subjects I hear the most about, with readers on both sides convinced that The Times is biased. The foreign editor, Joseph Kahn, told me that reporters and editors do their utmost to present news on this topic accurately and fairly. “We are, have been and need to be very attuned to the message that images, as well as words, send to readers on one of the most delicate subjects The New York Times covers,” Mr. Kahn said. “We don’t always get it right.” The prominent use of this photograph was a case of getting it wrong. [NY Times]

We were going to rip into Margaret Sullivan's apology too. But as we looked through the comments published on the page in the digital edition, we found that a reader had captured a good part of what we wanted to say. So we will quote him:

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