The Times and Tupac
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Re “The Times apologizes over article on rapper,” March 27
The media’s zeal for stories that involve scandal and revelation drive these kind of abuses. The thrill of getting the expose overrides common sense. In fairness, The Times shares this dishonor with many other news outlets. More troubling than the errors is all of our own thirst for jazzed-up news.
The Times must remain a positive force in our community. It must continue to search out and reveal corruption and complicity, but to do so without the truth does the community a disservice.
Chris Keller
West Covina
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The Times deserves some credit for its timely apology to readers -- on the front page, no less -- for getting conned into publishing a splashy but false story on the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur. But what can possibly justify the paper’s continued shielding of reporter Chuck Philips’ anonymous sources? One would think that a source forfeits his request for anonymity once his information is proved to be false.
The Times’ attempt to repair its shaken credibility won’t get very far so long as the editors hide the full truth of this debacle from readers.
Jim Lakely
Pasadena
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