UPDATE: Continued Presence of NYT's 'Wall Street Psychopaths' Op-ed Be

Tom Blumer
May 22nd, 2012 9:26 PM
Last night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted the total inadequacy of a correction the New York Times made to a notorious William Deresiewicz op-ed ("Fables of Wealth") published on May 12. Deresiewicz originally claimed that "A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are ‘clinical psychopaths’ … (The proportion at large is 1 percent.)." The study he cited was…
 

Unacceptable: NYT's 'Correction' to Op-ed Writer's Incurably False 'Wa

Tom Blumer
May 22nd, 2012 12:58 AM
The New York Times apparently wants us to believe that it has done its journalistic duty by issuing a "correction," the text of which will follow the jump, to an especially odious May 12 op-ed ("Fables of Wealth") written by William Deresiewicz. The author, who describes himself as "An essayist, critic and the author of 'A Jane Austen Education,'" originally claimed, as quoted at the Media…
 

NYT Co., a Multi-Billion Dollar Enterprise, Publishes 'Capitalists and

Clay Waters
May 15th, 2012 10:11 AM
Psycho-capitalism? The overwhelmingly liberal readership of the New York Times is predictably eating up a charged story in the increasingly pretentious and hard-left Sunday Review section, "Capitalists And Other Psychopaths," by left-wing essayist William Deresiewicz, a critic who often writes for The Nation. Bringing the article to life is a cartoon of two men with painted smiles torturing…