tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post5887913085507089422..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Comments on NY Times Lovefested notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-58004491800951718142007-09-05T23:49:00.000-04:002007-09-05T23:49:00.000-04:00I got a pretty weird email from him - very sarcas...I got a pretty weird email from him - very sarcastic about whether Martine Guerrier was a persistent critic of BloomKlein - his characterization. I challenged him to come up with examples -- I had been going to a lot of PEP meetings and saw her get less and less challenging - probably due to Marty Markowitz' alliance with Bloomberg. Herzenhorn or most reporters were never at these meetings. Other newspapers also put Martine in that category. <BR/><BR/>Teachers are very anti Post, News and Sun but often let the Times off the hook because they are not so brazen. But we have found individual reporters from these papers very receptive and they have done a better job. Andreatta from the Post did some very fair and balanced reporting -- he talked to teachers. Einhorn of the News and Elizabeth Green from the Sun have also done soem good stuff.<BR/><BR/>So editorially, these open right wing papers seem to give their reporters more room than the Times. I know of stories that were written and killed for political reasons.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong -- I got to know Martine and found her very receptive but she has disappeared into the jaws of Tweed bureaucracy. Cooptation. Deflection. <BR/><BR/>The UFT works the same way and I can point to people who have been bought off. At times there were even feelers out to me. As a matter of fact, just about anyone in the opposition who is willing to sell out can probably get a gig - look at New Action.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-14517312108962292032007-09-05T23:26:00.000-04:002007-09-05T23:26:00.000-04:00Nice piece of work, Norm!Just a small observation....Nice piece of work, Norm!<BR/><BR/>Just a small observation.<BR/><BR/>Leonie Haimson said:<BR/><BR/>"David H[erzenhorm]. promised me since at least 2006 he would do a story on class size – which I’m still waiting for.<BR/><BR/>"More recently he and Elissa Gootman said that they cannot do stories on any education issue that is not one of the Mayor’s priorities."<BR/><BR/>What we have here is a private admission that what appears in the NY Times news in the NY Times is politically determined at the editorial level. Surprising? Unfortunately not, at least it shouldn't be.<BR/><BR/>So, for Herzenhorm to get annoyed when his by lines are criticized is a bit amusing. On the one hand, he lets people know his hands are tied by his editors, and on the other he fails to show that he really understands the moral and personal consequences of allowing limits to be put on his journalism.<BR/><BR/>His upsetment for being taken to task not taking full responsibility for his failure to put out the whole truth about the the DOE is simply to be taken for what it is: moral and emotional immaturity.<BR/><BR/>For many years I have been under the impression that despite (or,more likely, because of) one's professional successes, a good newspaper man must live with a great deal of personal shame due to many, many sins of omission and commission (not to mention plain old moral cowardice, and fear) having to survive in a world where editors must be appeased and the identity and character of all sorts of sources must be kept secret.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com