#HillaryMen to New York Times: "Retract the story. Apologize to your readers." (powerful!)
The concept of proportionality informs our modern conception of justice. The penalty should fit the crime – the penance should match the sin.
Before we move on from the reprehensible episode of the New York Times and its inaccurate and unethical reporting on Hillary Clinton, this is a crucial point to make: There has been no penalty and no penance. The newspaper has (barely) admitted an error and its reporting still shows the same dismissive, belittling and negative tone toward a candidate trying to break America’s political gender barrier.
There is only one action that New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet can take in the wake of this scandal in his newsroom. He and publisher Arthur Sulzberger must retract in its entirety the inaccurate, damaging and deeply irresponsible Times report on Hillary Clinton’s emails. And the newspaper must publicly apologize – not just to Hillary, but to its readers. Failure to do so is a failure of leadership. It is a teachable moment missed for all media....
In Monday’s column by Margaret Sullivan, the paper’s public editor (she is an ombudsman, and holds no sway over the newsroom), Baquet basically threw up his hands and laid the blame on a single unnamed government source for the bad information that put the label “criminal” on what is a minor case of bureaucratic wrangling over the emails...
In light of this disastrous story, we said that Clinton supporters and Democrats should rightfully view all coverage of Hillary Clinton in the New York Times with suspicion. Today, we’d argue that all New York Times readers should view the paper’s political reporting with some distrust. The damage is that bad and the Times (except for Sullivan) has been nearly silent.
Retract the story. Apologize to your readers.
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/ny-times-missed-a-teachable-moment-on-hillary
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Well done hillarymen! 
