NY Times: Maybe that Mcfarland article wasn't true

Yeah that was a real back-handed contraction. 'So maybe this part wasn't true...but we're taking her word that texas fans are yelling racial slurs." Jeez.
 
Not much of a retraction. Just a bunch of excuses on why the NYT and the 'reporter' did not do their jobs in printing a story told by liars.
 
The NYT should include this caveat before it cites anything Ms. Adams says:

Ms. Adams, none of whose statements we've attempted to verify, claims "..................," and we have decided to allowed her to make such claims, uncritically, in the interest of fairness to all parties involved.
 
i attended myu first texa/ou game and only heard racial slurs come from ou fans. i heard one ou fan rag on texas southern after a victorious black ut fan taunted him about hte victory and i overheard another ou fan tell a longhorn fan to go back across the mexicoan border even before the game started.
 
I believe OU was home team and could host recruits. I would assume that OU would look after him and not allow him to wander off and attend UT parties anyway.

Oh, well, it's just the NY Times, so what would we expect.
 
I guess the Times wasn't satisfied doing a smear job on UT and Mack, so in the form of an "apology" which reads more like an alibi, they paint all of us UT fans as crackers, rednecks, and racists. I spent three decades as a journalist, and I see nothing from the Times that indicates any degree of journalistic integrity. Oh well...I guess there's some satisfaction in knowing that newspaper will probably be ancient history in a very few years, if not sooner...couldn't happen to a better rag.
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The NY Times goofed big time but McFarland is still not off the hook for writing the paper in the first place plus his mother has lost credibility even more not that it was very good anyway.
 
Bill...agreed...there is no winner in this. Obviously, UT suffers because recruiting opponents will cut and paste what they want to help with the negative recruiting. The NY Times is rapidly making the National Enquirer and Star look like bastions of journalistic integrity. Jamarkus looks like the biggest mama's boy in recent memory, not capable of making his own decisions. Mama looks like she has a serious anti-UT agenda, and a serious love affair with blow-u, and like she could be less concerned with facts in making her allegations. Thayer Evans looks like a hack who must have been asleep when they were teaching journalistic integrity in journalism 101 wherever he went to school in Oklahoma. Like I said...no winners...just different degrees of losers.
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Remember when the NYT was a beacon of journalistic integrity?
Yeah, me neither. But at least in years past they tried to put a front that they were unbiased and fair. What I find especially rich is they end their apolgy aka excuse by quoting from Ronald Reagan. Those of us old enough can remember they hated him and were unmerciful in their criticism for eight solid years. Now they are using the Gipper's name to get a little integrity. Shame on you. Just shame on you
 
I really never knew that much about the NYT. Since this has happened, and all the negative stuff I've seen and heard about it since this article, I've started paying more attention... and it isn't good.

It doesn't matter who you are, you have a beef with that newspaper. It seems to me that it doesn't stand much of a chance to stay around for a while.

Maybe they can move to Oklamomma, which seems to be the only place where folks still read it, well, if they can.
 
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