Comments on: Wall Street Journal runs unsupported Obama-shakeup story, then stonewalls questions

By: Endless quest for a fix at CNN â€” MediaBugs Blog

Endless quest for a fix at CNN â€” MediaBugs Blog — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:31:19 +0000

[…] The point of slogging through this tale isn’t to pick on CNN, but rather to illuminate an endemic problem. CNN.com is hardly alone in its inaccessibility and unresponsiveness, as MediaBugs’ recently published national survey of news sites reveals. We’ve had similar experiences reporting errors via MediaBugs with Fox News, the LA Daily News, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. […]

By: John Yoo’s faulty Bin Laden conspiracy theory â€” MediaBugs Blog

John Yoo’s faulty Bin Laden conspiracy theory â€” MediaBugs Blog — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:26:12 +0000

[…] thus far the Journal has been unresponsive to inquiries about Yoo’s piece, and its newsroom has proven inaccessible on such matters in prior […]

By: John Yoo’s bin Laden conspiracy theory « Mark Follman

John Yoo’s bin Laden conspiracy theory « Mark Follman — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:49:57 +0000

[…] thus far the Journal has been unresponsive to inquiries about Yoo’s piece, and its newsroom has proven inaccessible on such matters in prior […]

By: The White House shakeup that wasn’t: A followup on a Wall Street Journal mediabug â€” Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:36:24 +0000

[…] some effort on MediaBugs’ part, we received a response from the Journal’s assistant managing editor […]

By: Endless quest for a fix at CNN « Mark Follman

Endless quest for a fix at CNN « Mark Follman — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:54:23 +0000

By: WSJ’s Obama-shakeup overreach: Why I think the paper’s wrong, and why it matters â€” Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:50:38 +0000

[…] his inner circle. We sought a response from the Journal, and when we didn’t get one, we made a little noise about […]

By: Mark Follman

Mark Follman — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:39:43 +0000

@Footloose – Thanks for your comment. As detailed in the the error report itself (see the comments section, via the first link in this post) we tried several different avenues in seeking a response from the Journal’s newsroom. (Robert Thomson was not one of them.) That’s a key issue here: the Journal isn’t very accessible, it seems, when it comes to reporting an error. The designated email and phone info it provides apparently isn’t very useful. And aside from that, there is no indication of who specifically to contact or who might be in charge of handling the matter.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:44:45 +0000

Say, if you’re looking for some WSJ response, isn’t Alix Freedman your best bet? At one time, she was “standards editor.” Also a “deputy managing editor.” She might still have those titles. Not sure.

Sounds like you’ve been trying to get a comment from Robert Thomson, the managing editor. He’s a very busy man. It’s hard to imagine him creating time in his schedule to help with this sort of story dissection by an outside party. Not what he does.

By: Wall Street Journal pushes trumped-up Obama shakeup story, stonewalls questions â€” Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:05:59 +0000

[…] has been working this one, but with no response from the Journal to date. A blog post by my colleague Mark Follman explains the situation: Just ahead of last week’s election the Wall Street Journal reported […]