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Which was followed by an admission of the conflict of interest in running a tech-hype story written by the wife of a wealthy VC. http://publiceditor.blogs.nyti
by malz 10y ago
Which was followed by an admission of the conflict of interest in running a tech-hype story written by the wife of a wealthy VC.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/conflict-of-interest-in-t-magazines-tech-article/ http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/conflict-of...
- jrochkind1 10y agoThis is some incredibly bizarre reasoning from the T editor: > it was my mistake in not asking her if there were any potential conflicts. This was an oversight on my part. I say this not as an excuse, but she is, separately from her husband, a billionaire (making her through marriage a billionaire twice over) and for that reason I think I failed to consider any monetary conflict in her case. She assumes that rich people have no 'monetary conflict' [of interest]? What?
- untog 10y agoI think what they are saying is that she is independently wealthy - as such they didn't check into her husband in the same way they would have if she depended on him for money.
- simula67 10y agoI take it that you are not claiming it is not wrong ? Regardless of whether she depends on her husband for money, or if she was independently rich, there can still be conflict of interest.
- untog 10y agoI'm not claiming anything. It's obviously wrong, and the editor admits as such - I was just paraphrasing their reasoning behind the mistake.