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Julia La Roche, Business Insider, Ken Langone Trashes The NYTimes And Destroys A CNBC Guest For Relying On It For Information, here. OK, I guess you can only cite the Times Book Review or David Carr on the Red Carpet at the Oscars without getting clocked in an argument on TeeVee. So, now it is 2012 and there is no newspaper of record? Maybe truth is like an exhaustible natural resource and the NYT limited supply ran out before the Business section could get some.

Here’s an excerpt from a transcript:

Ken Langone: ”I have a question for you, sir.  Do you have any specific facts to substantiate the opinion you just put on this television show?

Nelson Lichtenstein: Well, yes.  Walmart has been in the past, has repeatedly been cited.

Langone: No, I’m asking you, if — I’m asking you if you have any facts.  Don’t cite somebody else.  That’s hearsay.

Lichtenstein: Do I, no, I’m not an investigator of Walmart and I read the New York Times article and the New York Times article was pretty devastating.

Langone: Oh, the New York Times, that pillar of journalism that never has any opinions.  Let me tell you what.  In a selection of who is more likely to be telling the truth, Walmart or the Times, the Times doesn’t even get in the race. Well, let me say this. You’re saying your source is the New York Times? Shame on you as a professor…

 



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