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Volume One of The Sanger Chronicles


David E. Sanger has long been my second least favorite reporter for the New York Times (wanna guess who's first?). An authority on the DC foreign policy game (who will remain unnamed) once characterized Sanger as "deeply cynical," "notorious for catering to established power centers," "does not seek alternate or critical sources who might contradict the officials and thus kill his stories" and finally Sanger has a tendency "to produce stories that are damaging and frequently false." He's also "dishonest by omission."

Yesterday Jeffrey Lewis over at Arms Control Wonk posted a scorcher on Sanger that's a must read.

I think I am going blog-adopt Sanger. He's not as bad as Miller, but it's close.


Sean Paul Kelley July 21, 2005 - 3:31pm
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think about adding Micah Holmquist

to your list

http://agonist.org/story/2005/7/21/142457/303

Or is it that journalists new jobs is to watch the blogs that don't fact check and debunk them?

Ya, I still stand behind my First Amendment argument: it's the reader's job to figure out where the propaganda line or even simple sloppiness line is being crossed.

I'm glad you're fact checking someone like Sanger, is my point. Doesn't mean all the blog triumphalists out there, mixing politics and news, aren't making it worse.

What I think you see in Sanger is the result of hanging around DC too long. Is sorta an early version of hanging around the same blogs too much. :-)

artappraiser July 21, 2005 - 7:08pm
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So predictable Arta--eom

Sean Paul Kelley July 21, 2005 - 7:44pm
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Lemme ask you Arta:

Is there a reporter you won't defend, or a blogger that you won't criticize? Jus curious.

Sean Paul Kelley July 21, 2005 - 10:30pm
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