http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/5948/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/killer-vet-story-worthy-marred-bad-numbers-says-public-editor <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Public Editor Clark Hoyt&#039;s take on the Times&#039; inflammatory story on murderous veterans: A worthy idea marred by shoddy statistics and the eternal journalistic quest to uncover a trend. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Public Editor Clark Hoyt tackled the paper's <a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080114134026.aspx" target="_self">inflammatory front-page</a><a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080114134026.aspx"> story </a>from January 13 that baselessly suggested returning veterans were in danger of coming home killers, offering worthless statistics to back up the biased assertion. (The series continued Sunday with another <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/us/27vets.html?sq=" target=_self ?</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/killer-vet-story-worthy-marred-bad-numbers-says-public-editor" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch BillKeller ClarkKoyt Crime DeborahSontag KillerVets LizetteAlvare Military NewYorkTimes NYTimes PublicEditor TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:23:00 +0000 admin 5964 at http://archive2.mrc.org http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/anger-continues-over-times-sleazy-story-killer-veterans <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Outrage over a sleazy Times story on U.S. veterans who come home and kill. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Outrage continues to boil over the Times' <a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080114134026.aspx " target="_self">front-page story </a>on veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan and committing murders and was immediately discredited by cursory research as journalistically and statistically worthless. The Times' main finding, that 121 veterans either committed a killing in this country or are charged with one, was useless without context, which the Times either couldn't or didn't provide.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/anger-continues-over-times-sleazy-story-killer-veterans" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Crime DeborahSontag LizetteAlvare NewYorkTimes NYTimes TimesWatch TimesWatch.org U.S.Troops veterans Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:21:00 +0000 admin 5948 at http://archive2.mrc.org