June 27, 2004, 03:58 PM
Chronicle: Where local news comes from New York
The Chronicle, which received widespread criticism in media circles for its inept coverage of the Enron scandal, runs excerpts of an interview with Ken Lay in Sunday editions.
The article is apparently pieced together from an AP dispatch.
The AP dispatch was pieced together from the original report by Kurt Eichenweld in the New York Times.
Once again, the Chronicle is simply running “olds” as news, which begs the question why people wouldn't just go read the news and op-eds in the New York Times and LA Times (where the Chronicle picks up so much of its material) and ignore the Chronicle altogether.
Amusingly, the Chronicle did report that Ken Lay has denied their interview requests repeatedly. I'm not so sure I would have admitted in print how useless my newspaper really is, even at covering local news. But the Chronicle editors (obviously) don't always share my judgment.
A tip of the hat goes to Houston blogger Charles Kuffner for catching this one.
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