Former Hartford Courant and WFSB columnist and political reporter Don Noel found his way into an analysis this weekend of the New York Times’ coverage of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Noel was quoted in an article by Public Editor Margaret Sullivan. His chief complaint was that the print edition of the Sunday Times carried no mention of Scalia’s passing even though he had been alerted Saturday afternoon to the news by the Times.
“At 5:44 Saturday afternoon, I got a ‘breaking news’ notification from the Times on my iPhone reporting the death of Antonin Scalia,” he[Noel] wrote. “More than 12 hours later, my Sunday Times was delivered to my doorstep in Hartford — with not a single word about Scalia’s death.” He wrote: “Maybe print journalism is deader than I’d thought.”
We did notice that the two earliest reports on Scalia’s death came first from the BBC and then Politico. Both the Times and the Washington Post seemed to be way behind with the bulletin.
The San Antonio Express-News is getting wide credit for being first with the story.
