In his column in reference to the recent community activist Acorn scandal of an isolated case of improperly advising sex workers, Public Editor Clark Hoyts reports:
“Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was ‘slow off the mark,’ and blamed ‘insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.’ She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies.’”
WATCHDOG: The position of “public editor” is the Times’ ombudsman, its in-house “watchdog.”
