New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan gave the publication a Twitter-pat on the back for its coverage of Kermit Gosnell’s mass murder trial. Media blackout? Pfft!
Sullivan called the paper of record’s coverage “not insubstantial.” Can we get a fact check from Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers?
http://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/statuses/323137678973485057
@Sulliview The statistic I've been hearing is that you've only had one story on the trial since it started. Is that not true?
— (Stephanie) Slade (@sladesr) April 12, 2013
Sullivan admits the Times published one piece on the trial. One. But come on, you guys, the paper already covered this stuff before the trial began.
@sladesr That is true. But there was substantial coverage, including a major 2011 takeout and other shorter pieces since.
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 12, 2013
And more coverage is on the way … she thinks.
.@tenuto Also, based on what @SamSifton tells me, I think you can expect to see at least one more substantial #gosnell piece in @nytimes.
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 12, 2013
@sladesr I think you will see more.
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 12, 2013
Powers wonders if possibly sending a Times reporter to Philadelphia to cover the trial would make Sullivan’s tweets more believable.
http://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/statuses/323138111796281344
Hush now, says Sullivan. We’ve got this. She counts a whopping five stories about the allegations that Gosnell murdered infants by snipping their spines.
@kirstenpowers10 Hi. I agree there should be trial coverage but there have been five stories since 2011. And am told more to come.
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 13, 2013
Indeed, there may be more to come. Bucks County Courier Times columnist J.D. Mullane spotted a New York Times reporter at the Gosnell trial on Thursday.
What I saw at the Gosnell trial |http://t.co/buas6sGIQ2 via @phillyburbs
— jd mullane (@jdmullane) April 13, 2013
Mullane reports, “An hour into afternoon testimony, Jon Hurdle of The New York Times showed up, and a few minutes later was gone.”
We look forward to his “report.”
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