Bill Carter of The New York Times has a problem. The New York Times has a problem, too, and so the two problems are connected, as we shall see.
FTV Livereports that Carter thought he had a scoop about changes at News Corp's MyNetworkTV--moving from a network to a hybrid programming service--when, in fact, it had been announced an hour before. As FTV puts it, Carter "took the bait without bothering to do any actual reporting or even a basic Google search which would have turned up at least two stories within the hour on the programming change."
And so Carter had to massively rewrite his story, which was exiled to the NYT online blog.
The Cable Gamer greatly admires FTVLive--it's a subscription service, but worth it. Indeed, FTVLive has lots more juicy details about how Carter is getting regularly smoked by up-and-coming Cable Gamer Brian Stelter. Maybe that's why Carter was so eager to believe that a run-of-the-mill story coming over the wires was a scoop.
And of course, the Times, overall, is regularly getting smoked by online 'zines and blogs, such as FTVLive, TV Newser, and yes, even sometimes, TCG!
