-Caveat Lector- From http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10676_7_12_1,00.html }}>Begin Inside Dope AWASH IN ERRORS, TIMES METRO DESK RECRUITS CORRECTIONS CZAR Friday , October 06 11:32 a.m. "We have a problem. We're making too many mistakes." That dramatic lede comes straight from the desk of New York Times metro editor Jonathan Landman, who used it to kick off a cranky internal e-mail to his staffers on Thursday. The gist of Landman's missive: Start double-checking your stories -- or else. "It isn't a pretty picture," Landman writes, going on to say that during the first nine months of this year, the metro section ran 253 corrections, 50 more than during the same period in 1999. Landman ticks off some of the more egregious errata: "One reporter put something into a story aware that it might be wrong, hoping the desk would catch it. Another thought something was OK to print because she read it in a book. A copy editor let a mistake go by rather than persevering in an unpleasant fight with a reporter." Landman doesn't mention Wen Ho Lee. But his note comes just a week after some hardcore soul-searching elsewhere at the Times over the Lee affair, in which a nuclear scientist was suspected of leaking nuclear secrets to China. Facing criticism of its early, somewhat high-pitched coverage, the Times ran two assessments of its Lee stories and editorials, both of them admitting to some less-than-exemplary editorial judgment. Back at the wayward metro desk, Landman writes that the Times metro desk has handed a whip-cracking editor named Patrick LaForge the very Soviet-sounding title of "corrections commissioner." LaForge's role is to force erring writers and editors to explain in writing why they goofed and how they might have avoided the mistake. Habitual offenders will have to answer to Landman himself, who warns that frequent mistakes will weigh on employees' annual evaluations. In sum, writes Landman, "We all need to worry a little bit more." End<{{ A<>E<>R Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox & Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
