Times media reporter to take on blowback from subjects of articles

Times media reporter to take on blowback from subjects of articles
RAW STORY



New York Times media reporter Katherine Seelye is set to pen a piece on what she calls a burgeoning "media wars" in Monday's editions, as subjects of newspaper articles continue to fire back at reporters, RAW STORY has learned.

The piece comes as the Times is already steeped in criticism, just months after a saga involving reporter Judith Miller and weeks after the paper revealed it had held back a story on domestic spying for a full year. Liberals and media watchdogs have attacked the Times for delaying the story.

It also comes a day after the paper's public editor, Byron Calame, disclosed that his own editor refused to answer questions about why the paper withheld the story for so long, and whether a forthcoming book by one of the paper's reporters sparked a renewed interest in bringing the story to print.


"Subjects of newspaper articles and news broadcasts are now fighting back with the same methods reporters use to generate articles and broadcasts -- taping interviews, gathering e-mail exchanges, taking notes on phone conversations -- and publish them on their own Web sites," Seelye begins. "This new weapon in the media wars is shifting the center of gravity in the way that news is gathered and presented, and it carries implications for the future of journalism."



DEVELOPING...

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/NY_Times_media_reporter_set_to_0101.html

She made it personal with Gore. And she continues to be a repuke hack. Just google kit seelye for all you need to know about this dangerous "reporter".