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To: JohnM who wrote (78538)	2/28/2003 10:26:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Just write things which fit your ideology. Not a world I wish to inhabit.<< Well, I think you do inhabit that world, but you just don't realize it. Because the New York Times fits your biases.

To: JohnM who wrote (78538)	2/28/2003 11:29:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Just write things which fit your ideology Like 43 stories on gender discrimination at the Masters.

To: JohnM who wrote (78538)	3/1/2003 10:38:26 AM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

JohnM,the N.Y.Times must have slipped from your list. >>Just write things which fit your ideology. Not a world I wish to inhabit. Though, with "newspapers" like the Washington Times and "media outlets" like Fox News around, this world has certainly grown in that direction.<< NY Times Spikes Columnists Who Disagree with Editorials So much for the so often vaunted separation between New York Times editorials and the news pages. The New York Daily News revealed on Wednesday that the Times spiked columns by two sports columnists who wanted to disagree with a Times editorial urging Tiger Woods to boycott next year’s Masters tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club because it has no female members. In a memo posted late Wednesday by Jim Romenesko’s MediaNews page, Times Managing Editor Gerald Boyd defended his decision to “spike” the two columns as he surreally contended that the “strict separation between the news and editorial pages” means they cannot criticize each other. Then why the pretense of separation? Boyd wrote: “One of the columns focused centrally on disputing The Times's editorials about Augusta. Part of our strict separation between the news and editorial pages entails not attacking each other. Intramural quarreling of that kind is unseemly and self-absorbed.” Boyd is too self-absorbed if he doesn’t realize the preposterousness of his argument. How can Times editors contend that the paper’s editorial position does not influence news content when reporters know they better not write any story which could be seen as undermining the paper’s editorial position? As Newsweek’s Seth Mnookin observed in a piece posted on MSNBC.com: “The paper’s thinking seemed to run something like this: we’re against this horrible discrimination, and we’re going to resort to censorship to make our point.” Mnookin was prescient. In a story in this week’s Newsweek about concerns over how Executive Editor Howell Raines is using the paper to advance his personal political agenda, Mnookin reported: “The Masters coverage is so overheated, one staffer says, that executive editor Howell Raines is 'in danger of losing the building.’” (For an excerpt of Mnookin’s story and a link to the full article, see the December 3 CyberAlert: mediaresearch.org Well, one of those disgruntled staffers called New York Daily News reporter Paul Colford. An excerpt of his December 4 story: Editors of The New York Times killed a column by Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Anderson that disagreed with an editorial about Tiger Woods and Augusta National's refusal to admit women as members. A column by sportswriter Harvey Araton also was zapped, sources said, because it differed with the paper's editorial opinion about the golf club standoff. The moves came amid extensive coverage of the Georgia club under former editorial page editor Howell Raines, who's called for high-impact stories since becoming executive editor last year.”... "That's right, my column didn't run," Anderson told the Daily News last night. "It was decided by the editors that we should not argue with the editorial page." A Nov. 18 editorial said Woods "could simply choose to stay home in April," instead of competing at the Masters. "And a tournament without Mr. Woods would send a powerful message that discrimination isn't good for the golfing business." Anderson recalled he wrote a column afterward saying, as he put it last night, "let Tiger play golf. It's not his fight, or any golfer's fight." According to Anderson, sports editor Neil Amdur told him the column wouldn't run. "Amdur had taken the column to [managing editor] Gerald Boyd. He wasn't quoting Gerald, but he said the editors didn't like us arguing with the editorial page."... It was said that Araton's column focused on the dispute between Augusta National chairman William (Hootie) Johnson and Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations on allowing women to join to exclusive club. Araton is believed to have written women face bigger issues than whether they can become members of a ritzy golf club. The Times editors' decisions reinforce a growing sense in journalistic circles that the paper under Raines looks for conformity in its news and opinion columns.... END of Excerpt For the article in full: nydailynews.com