Maureen Dowd No Longer Welcome in the "Crossroads of the Piney Woods"

Small-Town Newspaper Rebuffs Big-City Newspaper

A Texas newspaper, The Lufkin Daily News, will never again publish Maureen Dowd's column:

The New York Times' considerable credibility problem is now our problem, as well.

But unlike the Times, which has been engaged in a torturous exercise of naval gazing and self-flagellation, with its accustomed arrogance, since it was revealed that one of its younger reporters had committed all sorts of journalistic sins, we are doing something about it, and fast.

Until she explains to our satisfaction her own ethical transgression — an apparently deliberate distortion of a comment by President Bush — you will not find the work of Times columnist Maureen Dowd on this page....

Dowd quietly "corrected" herself by including the full quote in a subsequent column that appeared in The Lufkin Daily News on Thursday.

That's not good enough, and until Dowd, and her newspaper, fully account for her infraction, her column will not appear on this page....

Yes, I can read: I know it says Until she explains to our satisfaction her own ethical transgression and until Dowd, and her newspaper, fully account for her infraction. By asserting the LDN "will never again publish Maureen Dowd's column", I'm saying something about Dowd and the NYT, not about the Lufkin Daily News.

See More Deception From an NYT Columnist: Maureen Dowd, this time.

(Thanks, Emmy.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 06/01/03 12:11:08 PM
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