Journalistic transparency alert: New York Times (Updated)

I love stuff like this:

The New York Times editorial board is never wrong. Or at least, they won’t print anything that says they are.

Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA law school, wrote on his blog The Volokh Conspiracy Tuesday about a friend of his, Andy Pincus, who had written a letter to the editor at the New York Times about a court case in which he was currently working on as a lawyer.

“The Times is just wrong,” his letter to the Times said, in part. The paper wrote him back, asking if an edited version of his letter, with that phrase removed, would be ok.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/04/york-times-wrong/#ixzz1D1zyD0uS

Gotta love that transparency and dedication to free speech.

While I'm at it, I have to toss some props to PolitiFact for allowing people like me to flatly call them wrong in their own domain at FaceBook. I'm on record predicting that it can't go on like that indefinitely. So far there's no real sign that PolitiFact will change its policy.

Update:

I may have spoken too soon regarding signs of PolitiFact's change of heart with regard to audience input.  There are now some signs, though it remains a question as to where they lead.