NY Times and Conflict of Interest Appearances
NY Times public editor Clark Hoyt today calls on the paper to reassign Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner. Why?
Because Executive editor Bill Keller confirmed what Electronic Intifada first claimed: Bronner's son serves in the IDF, creating a conflict of interest for the paper.
Keller wrote that he doesn't intend to replace Bronner, despite Hoyt's concerns about appearances of conflict of interest.
I don't have any problem with Bronner being replaced as long as the MSM's consistent. All the western journos sleeping with Palestinian stringers and activists create their own conflicts of interest too.
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