The rap on blogs is they don’t have editors – and now that I’m involved at Pajamas Media (no longer a blog really, but some kind of hybrid), I have some sympathy for the difficulties involved. But it’s amazing the NYT let this statement slip through in their coverage of Sarko’s speech to Congress: “The warm welcome came as a surprise.”
Say what? Surprise to whom? The drumbeat for the arrival of “Sarko the American” has been going non-stop for three days. This is bad reporting and bad writing.
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NYT… bad reporting and bad writing.
Why would you ever expect otherwise?
I cannot believe how little coverage , I heard none on any TV news station between 6 & 8, spoke of one of the greatest speeches in front of Congress by Pres. Sarkozy; Not everyone reads the NYT, why would they? The working people of this country who see more of their boy’s & girls fighting for our country deserve to be made
aware of the changes of the leadership in France as any other country in the European League. This was one of the warmest sincerest speeches I have heard in the last fifty years, it came from his heart and the depth of his sole, there was no question about it.
It is ashame that all the networks don’t show it, a TRUE REALITY
PRESENTATION for all to witness. Thank goodness CSPAN did cover it, while CNN said they would give a synopsis later in the day?
We obsessed too much over our likeability. Zarko knows it and like any wayward significant other he put on a charm offensive. Charm over substance = we are getting back together, but we are not going to have sex yet (Iraq).
It’s a whole new world ñ the red sox have won two world series and France is lecturing us on sound market economics and they are right.
Now, that is a surprise.
I want to see more (i.e., real) evidence of this “warming” relationship. What have you done lately, France?
Likewise, my (red taped) stop sign over the French sticker on my car will not come off until they are actually helping us.
Or just cough up the pledge money they promised (rebuilding Iraq, tsunami relief, etc.)
It’s just a bummer that (without the red-tape “protection”) my Normandee sticker deteriated so much that it is unrecognizable now.
“The warm welcome came as a surprise to us.”
Fixed it for them.
editors…maybe there is an analogy with manufacturing, in which it has been found wise, in recent years, to put less emphasis on quality inspectors (editors) and more on getting workers (bloggers) to do the job right in the first place.