Time to revise the Times’s motto? Should “all the news that’s fit to print” read “misprint” instead?
Maybe, after the New York Times’s latest editorial snafu, charging the NRA with hypocrisy for banning arms-bearing at its April convention.
According to the editorial, “none of” the attendees were allowed to “come armed with guns that can actually shoot. After all the N.R.A. propaganda about how ‘good guys with guns’ are needed to be on guard across American life … the weekend’s gathering of disarmed conventioneers seems the ultimate in hypocrisy.… So far, there has been none of the familiar complaint about infringing supposedly sacrosanct Second Amendment.…”
But after first hitting print, the text has changed. It was too quickly and conspicuously confirmed that “anyone with a permit valid in Tennessee can ‘come armed [to the convention] with guns that actually shoot,” that “the NRA had no problem with gun owners with the proper gun permits bringing their weapons inside.”
So the Times editorial was edited after initial publication, nixing the reference to “the ultimate in hypocrisy.” The revised online editorial now merely professes dismay that guns won’t be allowed in one of the convention venues … but doesn’t mention that this is because of the policy of that particular venue, not the NRA’s.
The editorial still complains that nobody is complaining about alleged Second Amendment infringement no longer attributable to the NRA. Whose alleged hypocrisy was the Times’s original point.
It’s like somebody’s shooting at random and just hoping to hit something.
This is Common Sense. (I mean this, not the Times editorial, is Common Sense.) I’m Paul Jacob.
5 replies on “Times Misfires”
Fact checking, corrections and humility are all suffering from the budget cuts at the NYT.
Time to revise the Times’s motto? Should “all the news that’s fit to print” read “misprint” instead?
It’s not as if this is anything new.
Truth has no agenda, which is why it is of little use to those with an agenda.
I gave up on NYT long ago. What they print is not ‘news’.
Nice pistol. Probably made in CT, back in the old days