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...reporter's eagerness to be called on provided a light moment during a serious and even tedious session. White House press secretary Scott McClellan, standing in the wings with his South Korean counterpart, called on Caren Bohan of Reuters to ask the second question from the U.S. David E. Sanger of The New York Times, the press corps' leader in covering North Korean nuclear issue, was so intent on asking a question that he accepted the microphone when it was handed to Bohan. "You can go ahead and grab the mike if you want to," Bush joshed. "But I didn...
Therein lies the rub. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's former editor in chief (and now a lecturer at Ohio State) still loves the site but thinks his fellow professionals have a point. "The wide-open nature of the Internet encourages people to disregard the importance of expertise," he says. Sanger does not let his students use Wikipedia for their papers, partly because he knows they could confirm anything they like by adding it themselves...
...hilarious in his criticisms of the New York Times, and me in particular,” Sanger recalls. “Basically he [attacked] the certainty that the Times has that we’re right when we’re describing a set of events—the exact same critique one hears about Larry...
...Sanger recalls a time several years ago when Summers came to his house and offered advice about Hodgkin’s Disease—an affliction familiar to Summers that Sanger had recently been diagnosed with...
...Sanger explains that the press corps would routinely travel with Summers, and reporters from the Wall Street Journal recall flying with him on his whirlwind tour of Asia in 1998. According to several accounts, Summers usually treated unfamiliar journalists with a tightlipped cautiousness, keeping much of what he said “off the record,” but as he grew better acquainted with them, he would quickly grow comfortable, friendly, and invariably frank...