Old NY Time Posts using Elements

Thought I posted these at least a week ago, checked today and found out I didn't. As for last week's, that'll be up by the end of the day too. Spring cleaning...

NYTimes Log
3/24/10: In In the Process, Pushing Back At Inequality, I feel the writer, David Leonhardt, breaks a few of the rules from the Elements of Journalism. The rule he appears to break is 3: That the essence of journalism is verification. A lot of paragraphs on the inside part (A19) struck me as simply opinionated. While I believe what he is saying is true, and I realize you must compact things for an article, I wish he’d he’d reference the charts the newspaper is already using. It also makes me wonder if being part of a political party, even if just registered, could break rule 4 about maintaining independence from those a reporter covers?
3/26/10: In Legal-Marijuanna Advocates Focus on New Kind of Green, reporter Jesse McKinley does a good job representing things I think David Leonhardt had trouble with. She’s very balanced, showing both sides of the issue, using facts, quotes, and a straight forward writing manner that is not bias and is informal. She also appears to have no connection to the drug and with a strong voice makes it interesting.
3/30/10: While Mary Walsh works hard on being informal in her article State Debt Woes Grow Too Big To Camouflage, I can’t help to find the people she quotes a little odd. While the Harvard Professor on Economics has a lot of experience, I think that was the wrong person to quote. A better source for verification would have been a state senator who works on the finances of California, or better yet, just not paraphrase all the other people she mentioned. Also, shorter paragraphs would have been a lot better and a voice would have made this interesting. Walsh does not seem to have one.
3/31/10: I find Dennis Overbye’s article European Collider Begins Its Subatomic Exploration very informal, though it shows no real opposing sides. For example, it does not list any quotes to what the people who work on the Tevatron thing of the Collider or the congressman who canceled the Superconducting Supercollider project. Also, why is this listed at occurring in Pasadena, California when we’re talking about a place near Geneva and definitely in Europe?
4/1/10: I find Alex Williams’ The Walter Winchells of Cyberspace, an interesting take on the fine line between gossip blogs and actual journalism. While being accurate in descriptions and verification, Willam’s article also demonstrates the tenth rule of the rights and responsibilities citizen’s have to the news.