Comments on: The NYT doesn’t care about posting primary documents http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/ A slice of lime in the soda Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: vinlander http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15908 vinlander Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:09:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15908 If the NYT had made Judith Miller post sources documents, the Iraq war might not have happened. If the NYT had made Judith Miller post sources documents, the Iraq war might not have happened.

]]> By: HBC http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15907 HBC Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:04:19 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15907 It's nice of Felix to keep making helpful suggestions to the NYT while others they've presumably been paying good money to come up with a coherent online news identity so obviously haven't. There's probably more to it than this, but it seems NYT hasn't made up its mind whether its online presence ought to become (because it still is not) a global must-read experience, or atrophy as a stodgy parochial news massage parlor which potential readers may as well live without. At the rate NYT's been going, by the time they've found their stride it may be too late. It’s nice of Felix to keep making helpful suggestions to the NYT while others they’ve presumably been paying good money to come up with a coherent online news identity so obviously haven’t.

There’s probably more to it than this, but it seems NYT hasn’t made up its mind whether its online presence ought to become (because it still is not) a global must-read experience, or atrophy as a stodgy parochial news massage parlor which potential readers may as well live without. At the rate NYT’s been going, by the time they’ve found their stride it may be too late.

]]> By: br_add http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15905 br_add Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:21:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15905 You should encourage your Reuters co-workers to post source documents online too - outside of the blogging realm I haven't seen many of these documents posted (although to their credit, reporters have been pretty good about emailing the docs when I've requested them to). But please don't encourage people to use that scourge of my existence Scribd! You should encourage your Reuters co-workers to post source documents online too – outside of the blogging realm I haven’t seen many of these documents posted (although to their credit, reporters have been pretty good about emailing the docs when I’ve requested them to).

But please don’t encourage people to use that scourge of my existence Scribd!

]]> By: FelixSalmon http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15904 FelixSalmon Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:39:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15904 Zdneal -- Yes, that's exactly right. Obviously, they have a headstart, and they get the documents first. But right now it's pretty clear that the NYT will never publish anything more about say that Wal-Mart memo. If bloggers or anybody else can find new and interesting stuff in it, they should be able to. And every time they do, they'll credit the NYT for finding it. Everybody wins. Zdneal — Yes, that’s exactly right. Obviously, they have a headstart, and they get the documents first. But right now it’s pretty clear that the NYT will never publish anything more about say that Wal-Mart memo. If bloggers or anybody else can find new and interesting stuff in it, they should be able to. And every time they do, they’ll credit the NYT for finding it. Everybody wins.

]]> By: jennkepka http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15901 jennkepka Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:06:35 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15901 I think the NYT has done some of the crowd-sourcing that you're talking about: they posted all of Tim Geithner's daily schedule from his Fed days online, after all, and asked readers to note their observations and/or send them in.(http://documents.nytimes.com/geithner-schedule-new-york-fed) I think the NYT has done some of the crowd-sourcing that you’re talking about: they posted all of Tim Geithner’s daily schedule from his Fed days online, after all, and asked readers to note their observations and/or send them in.(http://documents.nytimes.com/geithne r-schedule-new-york-fed)

]]> By: Zdneal http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/15/the-nyt-doesnt-care-about-posting-primary-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-15900 Zdneal Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:09:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=4267#comment-15900 This sounds like you're asking the NYT to allow you to do original reporting on documents they acquire. This sounds like you’re asking the NYT to allow you to do original reporting on documents they acquire.

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