**Zing!

Now *this* is some good news.

Yay, but I would edit a sentence in Margaret Sullivan's memo:

"The practice [of 'quote approval'] risks giving readers a mistaken impression that we are ceding too much control over a story to our sources."

should read

"...risks giving readers the undesirable realization that we are ceding too much control..."

You don't live in a Democracy, you live in a Corporate Personhood controlled Republic of elites.

Just ask Al Gore, our President.

I had the same reaction: When in unethical hell did the NYT START letting sources review their quotes? I figured crappy blogs and unprofessional publications did this, but the NYT?!? Good for ending it now, I guess. But how many years back of articles should I disregard as PR fluff pieces, and which ones? Fucking media.

I haven't trusted the reporting in The New York Times or NPR for over a decade. Nice to see that the Times, at least, is proving me right.