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| Was NYT writer Joe Nocera unethically slamming SAP Posted: 13 Oct 2010 11:47 AM PDT Following a few Twitter posts out there on a controversy surrounding New York Times writer Joe Nocera. He claims he was “unaware” of his own conflict of interests with his current fiance when he wrote a scathing rebuke of SAP, to the delight of Oracle, over the TomorrowNow lawsuit. While Nocera claims “ignorance” of the conflict of interest he sided so clearly against SAP and was so firmly in the Oracle camp that he proclaimed SAP a “thief” over the TomorrowNow lawsuit (referencing Apothekar joining the HP board Nocera notes he “clearly knew about the theft” of Oracle intellectual property). As the article except below notes, after being notified of Nocera’s apparent conflict of interests with his fiance working for the law-firm representing Oracle in the lawsuit, the NYT had this to say: Joe Nocera wrote about a lawsuit by Oracle against a division of SAP, claiming theft of intellectual property. Mr. Nocera learned after the column was published that Oracle was represented by the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, where his fiancée works as director of communications. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Mr. Nocera would not have written about the case if he had known of the law firm’s involvement. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that there are two gigantic problems for the New York Times and Nocera. 1) Nocera purports to be a “reporter” who works for the New York Times and they have certainly confirmed this (in other words he is “supposedly” bound by “journalistic” integrity standards at the New York Times) and, 2) “Nocera wrote about a lawsuit by Oracle against a division of SAP, claiming theft of intellectual property…” (ibid.). As any good reporter knows (to the dismay of the shills or hacks out there) you must actually do your research and READ the material you are referencing, and maybe even talk to a few people “in the know.”
By journalistic standards Nocera had to have actually READ the lawsuit and SAW BOTH THE PARTIES AND THE ATTORNEYS REPRESENCTED ON THE FACE OF THE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE COURT FILINGS (and deliberately skewed the article). Or, two, as seems to be common with New York Times reporters in recent years, Nocera simply made the whole thing up, or did sloppy research and reporting. It is unbelievable to me that he read the actual court filings, signed by the attorneys at the law firm his fiance works at, and did not see the connection. I just don’t believe it. On the other hand if it really is true, by journalistic “standards,” is he really an ethical journalist? Is he that sloppy and shoddy as to miss such critically important details? So, what will the New York Times do about this apparent problem with their own reporter? Will they promote him or will they fire him? ============================== For help with a successful SAP project contact us today. What have you got to lose in making the call or writing? Bill Wood For an overview of some of our services, whether it is SAP staff augmentation, SAP project assessments / audits, at-risk project interventions, or several other areas we might help then please see our service page ( http://www.r3now.com/services ). If you have any other questions please visit our contact page ( http://www.r3now.com/contact ) for more information. ============================== Related Posts:         |
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