
Taking The Time To Get The Story Right (Part IV)
March 1st, 2010 admin
The editors at Time have made change after change to this story, trying to bring it up to their standards, but perhaps a forest-for-the-trees issue has set in. You see, you can report the facts to the letter of the law 24 hours a day 7 days a week and still tuna won’t be one of the top ten most dangerous foods—that’s the simple fact. March 1, 2010 Maurice Edelson General Counsel Time Inc. VIA Email Dear Mr. Edelson, We have not heard back from you on the points we broached in our three letters of last week to Mr. Eisenberg, two of which you were copied on. Your silence on this issue is of concern to us because the issues…
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So, here’s the latest from the folks at Time.com. This time their lawyer lets us know how “indisputably accurate” their story is– only after having been revised twice because of myriad demonstrable errors we pointed out to them. Let me suggest a way we can stop this back and forth. We both agree that tuna is “generally healthful”—Time’s...

When I think if Time magazine, or even Time.com for that matter, I don’t think of agenda driven hacks or sloppy sensationalists trying to out do the competition. I think of solid journalists who, for the most part, let their work speak for itself. For cryin’ out loud, this is the publication that names the Person of the Year . You’ll probably...

Well, Time.com sure made some significant changes to that tuna article it botched yesterday. But here’s the question—is begrudgingly editing an erroneous report in order to come more in line with the actual facts enough? In this case—no. The report was fatally flawed from the beginning and, as we requested, should not just be corrected piecemeal...

Time.com has once again edited its piece on tuna . That’s two sets of corrections in two days. But we’re really at a point where the piecemeal editing and backtracking has exposed grave flaws in not only the reporting on this issue but the editorial process that went into publishing it. With all the tweaks and rewrites associated with it Time.com...

KGO-TV in San Francisco joins the legions of local news operations who have had reporters catapulted to the heights of Woodward and Bernstein by testing local fish for mercury with the help of agenda driven activists. And wouldn’t you know it they didn’t get the whole story quite right: March 5, 2010 Kevin Keeshan News Director KGO-TV ...

Paging Dr. Oz… Paging Dr. Oz… February 1, 2010 Laurie Rich Executive Producer ZoCo Productions, LLC VIA Email c/o Jackie Barth Dear Ms. Rich, I am writing to confirm receipt of my January 27th letter expressing concerns about serious scientific inaccuracies in Dr. Oz’s January 26, 2010 segment on fish consumption and mercury....

Time Magazine made a mistake when it put tuna on its Time.com top ten list of dangerous foods . Plain and simple it made a mistake .
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Dr. Oz claims to be one of the biggest proponents of eating fish but time and time again when it comes to seafood science he comes close to getting it right or he just misses altogether. After a recent syndicated column once again didn’t quite get the story on seafood right we reached out to his syndicator who promised they’d pass our concerns...

So, NBC wrote back, in hopes it would be able to address our “concerns.” I see a thorough cut and past job from Mr. McCormick but not so much with the addressing of the concerns. Feel free to read the letter and watch this space for our response: Gavin Gibbons Director, Media Relations National Fisheries Institute Jennifer McGuire, MS, RD Manager,...

I have some medical advice that Dr. Oz might be interested in hearing about. You see, it’s quite possible that his ears are burning these days and that might mean one of two things; one, he might need tympanometry which tests for ear infections or two, he might just need to log on to the internet because it would appear people are talking about...
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