New York Times Public Editor Only Perpetuates Bad Practices
Controversy erupted last week over the New York Times’s editorial decision to cover the WikiLeaks release of the Iraq War documents by prominently featuring a gossip article about Julian Assange’s personality traits and alleged mental health conditions, and by downplaying (or, as Columbia Journalism Review put it, “whitewashing”) the most damning revelations about U.S. conduct. Yesterday, that newspaper’s new Public Editor, Arthur S. Brisbane, purported to address the issue of the NYT’s WikiLeaks coverage, but completely ignored those controversies. Instead, as NYTPicker points out, Brisbane violated the newspaper’s own guidelines, as well as the urgent warnings of his three predecessors, by using anonymity in the most unjustifiable and journalistically reckless way possible. Journalistically speaking, allowing military officials to hide behind anonymity to disseminate the military establishment’s party line is about as slothful, low, and corrupted a practice as exists. The fact that the NYT’s Public Editor is now not only endorsing that tactic, but himself relying upon it, is a fairly strong statement about the uselessness of this position, at least when occupied by Arthur S. Brisbane. That he’s doing so as part of his ritualistic spouting of tepid, formulaic, substance-free defenses of that newspaper makes it all the worse. It looks as though the Times got exactly the person they wanted for this job.
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
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