TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2007
"On the Media" | Romenesko Letters
"My own view is that a news organization should never say in its news columns the word 'liar,'" Times public editor
Clark Hoyt tells
Bob Garfield. "It's such a loaded, judgmental word. It's certainly appropriate to use it if you're quoting someone, but adopting it yourself I think leaves you open to all kinds of accusations of partisanship." GARFIELD'S COMMENT: "I've read the New York Times coverage of the US attorney firing scandal, and I've read the facts arrayed before me and drawn my own conclusions, and my conclusion was that the attorney general [
Alberto Gonzales] has been lying through his teeth." || Related
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