{"id":728,"date":"2004-05-27T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/piling_on_piling_up\/"},"modified":"2004-05-27T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T18:19:18","slug":"piling_on_piling_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/piling_on_piling_up.html","title":{"rendered":"PILING ON, PILING UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people are wagging their fingers at the mea culpa<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> admitted yesterday by The New York
\nTimes. Frankly, some of the finger-waggers seem to be piling on, not that the errors don’t deserve
\na more thorough airing. <\/P>
\n

But it seems, too, that the Times has trouble learning from its own mistakes. The errors keep
\npiling up. Consider this morning’s headline on the front page: “Kissinger Tapes Describe Crises, War and
\nStark Photos of Abuse.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> The photos referred to, as described in
\nthe story’s second graf, are “the color photographs of the men, women and children killed in the
\nMy Lai massacre in South Vietnam.” <\/P>
\n

Must the headline writer for this story and\/or the Times’s front page editor be reminded that
\nvictims of wanton mass murder are not victims of “abuse”? Will there be a correction or
\nclarification tomorrow about the inaptness of that headline?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people are wagging their fingers at the mea culpa admitted yesterday by The New York Times. Frankly, some of the finger-waggers seem to be piling on, not that the errors don’t deserve a more thorough airing. But it seems, too, that the Times has trouble learning from its own mistakes. The errors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}