New York Times' abysmal failure
For many years the New York Times has been regarded as the American Newspaper of Record.
"All the news that's fit to print" has been the N.Y.T.'s proud banner
That banner has been defiled by the the decision of the Times's Editor to print the following anonymous editorial. (Don't bother to read it).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
To be sure it is fascinating and titillating, worthy of the worst tabloids (did anyone say the London Daily Mail?!), but shameful for the once venerable Times.
Shameful for its anonymity.
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Those of us such as Bruce Lomas, Mary Luti, and other godly pastors, ministers, bishops, preachers and teachers (and me!) are familiar with the anonymous letters which arrived in the mail or were smuggled onto our desks.
Those letters were always critical of aspects of our ministry, and most often they purported to represent the concerns not only of the author but also of "other concerned parishioners".
Of course they could be hurtful but their fate was clear. Into the shredder or waste paper bin.
Strange that the New York Times was unable to grasp the simple principle that anonymity is cowardly crap. It leads to no good and fruitful understanding.
"All the news that's fit to print" has been the N.Y.T.'s proud banner
That banner has been defiled by the the decision of the Times's Editor to print the following anonymous editorial. (Don't bother to read it).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
To be sure it is fascinating and titillating, worthy of the worst tabloids (did anyone say the London Daily Mail?!), but shameful for the once venerable Times.
Shameful for its anonymity.
---------------------------------------------------
Those of us such as Bruce Lomas, Mary Luti, and other godly pastors, ministers, bishops, preachers and teachers (and me!) are familiar with the anonymous letters which arrived in the mail or were smuggled onto our desks.
Those letters were always critical of aspects of our ministry, and most often they purported to represent the concerns not only of the author but also of "other concerned parishioners".
Of course they could be hurtful but their fate was clear. Into the shredder or waste paper bin.
For it was impossible to have a conversation or any fruitful engagement with Mr/Mrs/Ms Anonymous.
Strange that the New York Times was unable to grasp the simple principle that anonymity is cowardly crap. It leads to no good and fruitful understanding.
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