Under the guise of a "correction," the New York Times today publishes in its national section an unsigned, one-sided attack on Michael Milken. The "correction" reads as though it was dictated by those seeking to torpedo Milken's chances of obtaining a pardon from President Clinton.
Smartertimes.com can understand the Times running a correction of its erroneous statement that prosecutors raised no objection to the prospect of a pardon for Milken. It's true, some prosecutors have objected. But today's "correction," and the Saturday article it seeks to correct, both curiously omit the fact that the chief Milken prosecutor is now mayor of the Times' own city, and has come out strongly in favor of the pardon, most explicitly to Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal.
The Times reported Mayor Giuliani's position in a brief item in its metro-section gossip column on December 26, 2000. That column does not appear in copies of the Times distributed outside the New York metropolitan region. [The New York Times subsequently notified Smartertimes.com that this particular item appeared in the "New York Digest" section of papers distributed outside the New York region.] When it comes to the serious news coverage of the Milken pardon issue in its national pages, the Times has found Giuliani's position on the matter unfit to print.
Admiral 'Borda': An op-ed piece in today's New York Times refers to the death of "Michael Borda, the former chief of naval operations." Admiral Boorda spelled his name with two "o"s; the Times has it wrong.
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