More NYT attribution - on a military law blog

So this one's a mixed bag, but mostly a thumbs up for the New York Times. ...

Hed: In Court Ruling/On Execustions,/A Factual Flaw
Subhed: Blog Points to a Change/Justices Overlooked

To start, give the paper credit for getting "blog" in the subhed. In the third graf comes the first reference to "(a) military law blog" -- though unfortunately the blog is never named in the story.

In the last half-paragraph before the jump (in the print version) it refers to "a post over the weekend on the blog run by Dwight Sullivan, a colonel in the Marine Corps Re- (jump) serve who now works for ..."

In print, this annoyed me: "He titled his blog post "The Supremes Dis the Military Justice System." Still no mention of the blog's name.

But then online, lo and behold, the paper actually hotlinks the title of the blog post to the blog itself.

However, there's no mention of the title of the blog, which is CAAFlog. That's really akin to quoting a Bob Woodward story and saying it was printed in a Washington newspaper.

And my apologies that I'm only picking on the New York Times thus far. There's much more nits to pick online, offline, MSM, blog-wise and in the "wire reports."

Labels: media

- posted by Amy @ 7/02/2008 07:50:00 AM