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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Catchup on NYT v. The National Debate

The parody NYT columnist correction page put up by The National Debate was discussed here and here.

While I was out of town, the parties settled their differences. The NYT acknowledged that as long as the site had a disclaimer, it had no further concerns about possible confusion and TND put up such a notice. Log on to TND and scroll down to March 15.

Also, Daniel Okrent, the NYT's Public Editor, made a wry comment on the imbroglio:

"Anyone who calls the Internet's bustling trade in columnist-attack a cottage industry might more accurately liken it to the arms bazaar in Peshawar. Peace and calm were not enhanced a few weeks ago when Times lawyers took a legal sledgehammer to an imaginary Op-Ed corrections column published by Robert Cox of the Web site The National Debate - but peace and calm rarely accompany arguments about political opinion in a polarized age."

posted by James DeLong @ 2:24 PM | General

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