Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings

[BmorePat87]

(06-29-2020, 09:32 AM)GMDino Wrote: Wonder if this would have changed anything?

During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Marty Baron, the editor of the Washington Post, talked Bob Woodward out of publishing a story in the Post that would have shown that Kavanaugh is a stone cold liar. It never ran. This according to @benyt. https://t.co/fArIpiXL5I

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 29, 2020

 

unrelated to Kavanaugh, that was a good article 

[Dill]

(06-29-2020, 10:02 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: unrelated to Kavanaugh, that was a good article 

Somewhat related to Kavanaugh, as the the article leads with a decision to bury evidence of a Kavanaugh lie during his confirmation for the Supreme Court.

But this caught my eye.

“The Post is more than a collection of individuals who wish to express themselves,” Mr. Baron wrote. “The reputation of The Post must prevail over any one individual’s desire for expression.”

This principle reflects Mr. Baron’s frequently expressed frustration that his reporters’ tweets could undermine The Post’s journalism. It sometimes seems that Mr. Baron is standing athwart Twitter yelling, “Stop!” and nobody’s listening.

The intensity of the debate inside The Post over its journalists’ tweets emerged in an internal survey of reporters’ attitudes, commissioned by the national editor, Steven Ginsberg, without Mr. Baron’s participation. The report, which was circulated in April, described Post management as “ill-equipped to deal with social media in the modern era” and suggested that managers are more forgiving of mistakes “by white men and newsroom stars than they are of women, minorities and less high-profile reporters.”

[BmorePat87]

(07-02-2020, 02:24 PM)Dill Wrote: Somewhat related to Kavanaugh, as the the article leads with a decision to bury evidence of a Kavanaugh lie during his confirmation for the Supreme Court.

But this caught my eye.

“The Post is more than a collection of individuals who wish to express themselves,” Mr. Baron wrote. “The reputation of The Post must prevail over any one individual’s desire for expression.”

This principle reflects Mr. Baron’s frequently expressed frustration that his reporters’ tweets could undermine The Post’s journalism. It sometimes seems that Mr. Baron is standing athwart Twitter yelling, “Stop!” and nobody’s listening.

The intensity of the debate inside The Post over its journalists’ tweets emerged in an internal survey of reporters’ attitudes, commissioned by the national editor, Steven Ginsberg, without Mr. Baron’s participation. The report, which was circulated in April, described Post management as “ill-equipped to deal with social media in the modern era” and suggested that managers are more forgiving of mistakes “by white men and newsroom stars than they are of women, minorities and less high-profile reporters.”

I meant that the article in general was good, not just the headline about Kavanaugh.