NYTimes compromises journalistic integrity. Writes front page article because of 16 year old dad's connections.

A 16 year old boy whose father is the managing editor of two newspapers somehow was a front page news story on the NY Times. The story was incredibly biased, with no interview of either the other students in the class or the teacher. It paints a picture of the student being discriminated against because he was asking questions in class and stuttering too much.

In a follow up article printed in the Times 3 days after the first, and buried where few would read it, the teacher points out that the student was trying to answer every question, taking up class time for others.

As someone who is taking classes right now, it is very disruptive and annoying when one student decides he is the center of the world, or that he is much more intelligent than everyone else and must prove it as loudly as possible. That his father would take up his son's cause when he felt mistreated just shows how much of a narcissist this boy must be. That the father has enough power to have his son's story told in a large newspaper, in order to destroy a good teacher's career, is the most troubling part.

With everything else happening in the world these days, is it really fair for a story like this to be in the NY Times, let alone its front page? How can an article so biased even be written in what was once such a reputable newspaper? What other articles in the Times are written that are solely meant to manipulate the public for one man's benefit.

First article

Teacher's point of view

Article by the boy's father, at his newspaper