The newspaper has corrected a January piece “about women who commiserated over dating Wall Street bankers caught in the financial crisis” who claimed they had formed a support group, Dating a Banker Anonymous, with about 30 women participating. It’s just a blog, and a joke at that. If published in a book the Times would call it a hoax; as published in their pages it is “a satire that embellishes true experiences for effect.” The paper blames those featured for not having made “the nature of the blog…clear at the outset.” As Newsweek notes, the women behind the blog have […]
