In paragraph 4, we're told that the jurors, leaving the courthouse, would not speak to the press, but one woman, contacted by phone, said -- in the words of the NYT -- "that she had all but made up her mind before deliberations began." The readers' suspicions of injustice are stoked. Yet really, the juror has admitted nothing wrong here. Why the paraphrase? What did she say?
Do people even click to see what's on page 2?
17 August 2007
Legacy Media Rides Again
The New York Times is more and more adopting a mullet-like appearance: Misleading up front, informationally valid in the back.
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