{"id":682,"date":"2008-06-01T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-06-01T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T18:07:09","slug":"sins-of-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Sins of omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/01\/opinion\/01pubed.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\">Clark Hoyt<\/a>, the public editor of the New York Times, took the editor of the Times&#39; opinion page to task for having published the moronic ravings of <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=666\">Edward Luttwak on Obama<\/a>.&nbsp; He concludes that the Times ought to be more responsible on factual questions.&nbsp; He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Times Op-Ed page, quite properly, is home to a lot of provocative opinions. But all are supposed to be grounded on the bedrock of fact. Op-Ed writers are entitled to emphasize facts that support their arguments and minimize others that don&rsquo;t. <strong>But they are not entitled to get the facts wrong or to so mangle them that they present a false picture.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds right to me.&nbsp; Two cheers for Hoyt.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But the editing job ought to beyond the straight up factual claims.&nbsp; Disregarding obvious countervailing evidence, which can happen when op-ed writers &quot;stress&quot; some facts and not others, is just as bad, if not in fact worse. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, took the editor of the Times&#39; opinion page to task for having published the moronic ravings of Edward Luttwak on Obama.&nbsp; He concludes that the Times ought to be more responsible on factual questions.&nbsp; He writes: The Times Op-Ed page, quite properly, is home to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sins of omission<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}