Skinners LTTE...New York Times...

I hope this isnt'a dupe...

To the Editor:

As the administrator of the Web site Democratic Underground, I am perplexed as to why you would consider an obscure posting on a busy Internet discussion forum to be worthy of an article ("Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate," news article, Jan. 3).

Your article did not make clear that the message in question was posted by a completely anonymous individual, whose identity and political agenda are impossible to determine. The article also did not mention that the posting appeared to be an innocent question from a person guilty of nothing more than ignorance. Indeed, the posting's title (which you did not mention) was "One more dumb question regarding the earthquake in Asia."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/opinion/l10blog.html?oref=login

Way to go, Skinner!

If NYT's was really an investigative paper and really came to DU, they would know at first glance this is a discussion forum. It doesn't take much investigative work. See, it says Discussion Forum on the top of every page.

So the NYT knew they were deliberately lieing about what the site was. Why?