Strange NYT Retraction on NFL HGH Testing Story

Other writer might still have been working on it and this story got in first.

Just a guess.

 

This. Particularly the part about her being brilliant because this shouldn't be a reflection on her entire body of work.

 

She seems a bit to enamored with the "same old / same old" anti doping experts. This might have been the downfall of this story.

 

Either Macur misread the new NFL policy, or a source gave her bad information. It's one or the other. The NYT should simply say which it is.

Instead, the NYT seems to be throwing Macur under the bus by pitting her against another reporter in the context of a correction. That's both weird (uncharacteristic of the NYT) and mean-spirited.

 

I don't know if it's weird. It's definitely mean-spirited.

I've been at a lot of papers or seen it happen at a lot of papers where one writer is mad they weren't assigned a specific story and they don't give the proper background to the writer who is doing the story. I don't know if that's the case here or not...

 

Frank Rich says it's all Rupert Murdoch's fault.

 

You mean he is no longer blaming George Bush for everything?

 

Really not understanding that retraction. What's the point of saying one writer had the info but another didn't and/or got it wrong? Is that supposed to be an explanation or an excuse?

 

Yeah, you just print that the writer got it wrong, print the correction and leave it at that.

 

It sounds like they were playing that old childrens game of telephone.

Julie called and said that......

 

Kenny Irwin just rolled over in his grave and doesn't know why.

 

Given all that's on Judy Battista's plate, and the fact that she came across as extremely nice in my one encounter with her, that seems unlikely. Battista might be the Times' top sports reporter at this point -- consistently brilliant, occasionally news-breaking and on the biggest beat in sports -- so I doubt she's viewing this through the shallow "why wasn't this mine?" lens. But I could be wrong.