This Ongoing War..
25 November '13..
Further to the matters we raised in "24-Nov-13: Attention NY Times editors: What, if anything, is the public entitled to expect from a Public Editor?" the Public Editor of the New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, has an article today ["Why a Times Photo Remains Online After Criticism"] that starts this way:
After I wrote last week about a photograph of a Palestinian mother, many readers and many other observers complained that – since two senior editors agreed it was not a good choice for dominant art with the story about an Israeli soldier’s death – it was wrong for The Times to not remove the photo online.
She goes on to quote Philip B. Corbett, the NYT's associate managing editor for standards who explained that
except to correct factual errors, we very rarely change or delete published content. The stories that remain accessible through our website constitute our electronic archive of what The Times has actually published, parallel to the print and microfilm versions of our archive that we have always maintained. My colleagues and I frequently receive requests to alter or delete published material from our archive, for a wide range of reasons. We explain that our policy is not to do so. Other than for factual errors, if we routinely went back into a story published days, weeks or years earlier – rewriting, re-editing, adding or deleting photos or other elements – pretty soon our archive would cease to be an archive at all.
Very rarely, he said?
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