Thursday, February 14, 2008
Renegin' Ray Nagin
Posted by Noah Bonaparte Pais on Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Local blogger Kevin Allman has more on Nagingate, the developing, mysterious disappearance from the Times-Picayune's pages of first editorial criticisms directed at our (de)famed mayor's new pictorialized gun policy and, now, letters to the editor about said incident.
"After scrubbing its editorial page criticism of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin -- first in the print edition(s), and then in its online edition -- the Times-Picayune seems to have removed two letters to the editor about the incident from its website, replacing them with two different letters that did not appear on the main editorial page of today's edition."
Read the vanished letters on Allman's blog.
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WDSU has video up showing the photo in context. http://www.wdsu.com/video/15301174/index.html
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The paper issued a clarification/apology this morning: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/to_our_readers.html It's great that the T-P is being forthright with its readers, but I don't think attempting to scrub all evidence of what they considered an error was the correct approach. Keeping the Web versions of the razz and the LTTEs online, but appending an editor's note to each, would've been the right -- and the transparent -- thing to do...and would have given the impression that the paper was attempting to right a wrong, rather than cover its mistakes.
