IS A WARNING TO READERS NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT?

IS A WARNING TO READERS NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT? I encountered a scary fake antivirus popup over the weekend—one of the kinds if virus that you can’t close without shutting down your computer and losing the sites you were looking at. I found out from a blog yesterday that it’s the New York Times site that is spreading the virus. (I just finished reviewing recent posts and I have not linked to the Times for a while so this blog hasn’t spread the virus. If you ever look at the Times site, you may want to look at the links that follow). I get the Times in my inbox every morning so that must be where I got the problem. It is amazing to me that the Times did nothing to notify readers of the problem. They did not e mail me of the problem and they buried the news story. Here is the index for September 14—no mention of what happened. To find this news story, I would have had to click on “More Media $ Advertising News.” The editorial policy of the Times is frequently criticized. Here is a news story which was of interest to almost every reader—and could prevent possible harm to every reader— but it was a story that was unfavorable to the Times—so it was buried.