B.L. Ochman exposes the New York Times for not giving journalist credit to a blogger for a scoop in a case where it’s clearly due. After last week’s Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana case in which the court ruled that the death penalty was not an appropriate penalty in the case of child rape, Dwight Sullivan of the CAAFlog pointed out that Supreme Court Justices missed a recent congressional statute in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 that “…expressly authorizing the death penalty for the rape of a child.” Ochman points out that the NYTimes doesn’t credit Sullivan for the scoop until the fourth paragraph of their story. Dwight Sullivan of the CAAFblog did get a link, but he didn’t get headline credit for breaking the story from the New York Times.
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This is about the last story the NYT’s should be criticized for. Asking for credit in the headline is pie in the sky.
If most newspapers stories a) gave credit to the blog that broke the story by name and b) including a working link in the online version of their story. The blogosphere would be being treated much better than it is today in 90% of cases.
By David Mastio on 07.13.08 1:35 pm | Permalink
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