NY Times doesn't allow letters to the editor to say the paper is 'wrong'

The New York Times editorial board is never wrong. Or at least, they won’t print anything that says they are. Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA law school, wrote on his blog The Volokh Conspiracy Tuesday about a friend of his, Andy Pincus, who had written a letter to the editor at the New York Times about a court case in which he was currently working on as a lawyer.

“The Times is just wrong,” his letter to the Times said, in part. The paper wrote him back, asking if an edited version of his letter, with that phrase removed, would be ok. He asked if he could say instead, “The Times is incorrect,” to which The New York Times responded: “We cannot say ‘incorrectly’ because that is the province of corrections, in which case I would forward the letter to the corrections editor and it could not be considered as a letter.”

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Jack Reynard

February 6, 2011 at 2:51 am

Why don't they allow comments on all of the articles they post on the net either? Some you can, some you can't. What kind of social control crap is this? For example, the article on Christian converts facing death under shariah law in Afghanistan, today does not allow comments, although a story about education in the United States does?? why….

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