Talk:Fox Butterfield

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[edit] "Apparently such dishonesty is the way they operate at the Times"

In February 2008, Dinesh D'Souza testified "from personal experience" that the sort of weasel-behavior that produced the allegations about John McCain's infidelity "is entirely in keeping with the way the New York Times does business."

Dinesh D'Souza explains: "Several years ago one of the paper's leading reporters Fox Butterfield did an article on The Dartmouth Review, which I edited as an undergraduate in the early 1980s. Seeking to discredit me, Butterfield quoted me as having written in the paper, 'The question is not whether women should be educated at Dartmouth. The question is whether women should be educated at all.' A witty line, perhaps, only I didn't write it. The line was actually written by another student, Keeney Jones. When I called Butterfield to point this out, the man insisted, 'No, you wrote it.' … I protested, 'But I was merely citing controversial lines that had appeared in the student paper. How can you say I wrote that line when I made it very clear that Jones wrote it?' To this Butterfield responded, 'But by quoting it you have made it your line.' I was dumbstruck. …apparently such dishonesty is the way they operate at the Times."

Normally, I would add something about this story to this article, but it is too short, isn't it? Asteriks (talk) 11:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)