"Times Won't Reprint Article for New Book"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times will not permit Michael Moore to include an article criticizing its own reporting for an upcoming companion book to the DVD release of the filmmaker's "Fahrenheit 9-11."

"We strongly value The Times's neutrality in its election coverage and we are determined not to associate ourselves with any work in film or print that attacks either candidate," New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said in a statement released Thursday.

Moore's "The Official 'Fahrenheit 9-11' Reader" is scheduled to come out next month in conjunction with the DVD release of "Fahrenheit 9-11," Moore's take on President Bush, the Iraq war and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The movie, which relentlessly criticizes and ridicules the president, has earned more than $100 million at the box office, a record for a documentary.

The Times article, published in May, was a self-analysis of the newspaper's pre-Iraq war reporting, including Bush administration claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040910/D850THEG0.html

[cheezus]

1. Moore should just include the URL to it

and point out that the Times wouldn't allow him to reprint it

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Bet they will take it down if they catch on

[Eloriel]

3. Not only that, the live link doesn't last all that long

The NYT and a number of other online news organizations archive their stores and offer only a brief (and sometimes not too complete) "abstract." If you want the whole article you have to pay.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, gotta make that profit.

[Eloriel]

6. Well, I've found a workaround

There's a really cool little software application, NoteTabPro, a text editor designed primarily for webmasters and programers. It's got a lot of cool features (many of which I don't even understand since I'm neither a web producer nor programmer), and is very inexpensive. When I run across important stories in places where I know the link goes bad fast, I copy the whole story and link into appropriate files in NoteTab. I'm doing this (or just copying the link) more and more instead bookmarking things. Yahoo, NYT, Boston Globe and Herald, LATimes, etc. all get this treatment if the stories are important.

[Vickers]

5. FTR, videotaping the pResident making an ass of himself is not

attacking the candidate. Just thought I'd point that out, NYT.

[Generic Other]

7. Can't he paraphrase them?

Since when is telling the truth a copyright violation? They said it. They can refute that or shut up.