Humble pie-not for the last time I'm sure.
I received an email today from a reader taking me
to task for a recent post in which I said (among other things) that the Day had
failed to notify its readers of the Gentile scam until it was too late. The
reader said that part of the post was "idiotic" because the Day's reporters were
working hard to uncover Gentile's background, but just couldn't get the goods on
him until Paul Chioniere uncovered the New York
lawsuits.
Since this particular reader
knows of what he speaks, I want to humbly beg his pardon and admit that what I
wrote was wrong, in that I wrote with too broad a brush. My gripe should have
been restricted solely to the editorial page. Their position on the man should
have been more aggressively negative. That being said, the subject didn't belong
in that post, because I was writing about both news coverage and editorial
coverage. So, it was an unfair statement and I apologize.
Posted: Sunday - February 04, 2007 at 07:03 PM