Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, and the Crisis of Ethics in U.S. Media
Can organizational culture damage a newspaper’s reporting? In the wake of the disastrously inaccurate story about Hillary Clinton’s emails published and amended by the New York Times over the past two days, we’ve been asked this question in many ways by #HillaryMen followers....
Erroneously reporting that the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination is the subject of a criminal inquiry and then ever so slowly walking it back in a series of revisions and non-corrections is one of the most troubling chapters in the paper’s recent history. Regardless of whether some portions of the story are correct, getting it wrong on a matter of criminality is unconscionable.
The Times has not – to date – taken responsibility in any way. The paper seems to be hiding behind a business as usual policy; there has been no admission of wrong-doing, no real public discussion on Eighth Avenue, no transparency....
This behavior from the Times matters to the race for the presidency and Hillary’s quest to break the ultimate gender barrier in American politics. It matters for the crisis of ethics in U.S. media, where one of the most accomplished, popular and powerful women in our history is regularly disparaged and disrespected by major publications. In fact, the terminology used to describe Hillary by the mainstream media often exceeds, in its virulence, the worst language of anonymous Clinton-hating trolls....
As one of our preeminent media institutions, the New York Times should be showing leadership on coverage of the first woman candidate with a viable shot at the White House. Instead, the reverse seems to be true. The Times fully understands that its silence on an inaccurate – and frankly, unethical – story in its own pages gives Hillary’s political opponents more leverage, more running room, and harsher talking points to advance a destructive political cause....
Nothing better exemplifies that poisoned culture than having the institution look the other way – or worse, repeatedly reward and encourage – Maureen Dowd’s creepy, personal, and bizarre attacks against Hillary over two decades....
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/hillary-clinton-ny-times-media-crisis-of-ethics?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork via HillaryMen (Tom Watson and Peter Dauo)
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