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I wonder if the Old Grey Lady rolled out of bed this morning and upon reading the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council's latest press release said, "dough!"

The New Zealanders aren't backing down from their complaints about the New York Times reporting on Hoki. In fact they're expanding their effort to get multiple editors at the Times to review the reporting and weigh in.

I'm sure none of you missed the New York Time's attempt at covering seafood last week, a hack job that took aim at New Zealand Hoki.

On Saturday the New York Times editorialized on the issue of mercury emissions from America's coal-fired power plants in the wake of a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin a rulemaking that could result in reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants by 90%.

Yesterday the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope of the blog Well, linked to a piece on shopping for sustainable seafood over at True/Slant written by Seattle food writer Kim O'Donnel.

There’s more action over at John Stossel's blog when it comes to our open letter to the media about distortions found in reporting on seafood. In response to Stossel merely linking to the open letter and mentioning her flawed report on sushi tuna and mercury, Marion Burros left a message with a 20/20 producer claiming our open letter was “filled with half truths and out-right falsehoods.”

Do you remember as a kid looking at the picture of a toy on the box and then opening it and finding it didn't quite match the sell job created by the artist's conception? I distinctly remember being a youngster and finding the difference between a remote controlled car and a radio controlled car meant one has a cord attached to the controller and the other didn't. I wasn't quite sold a bill of goods but the sales job didn't quite match reality. These days I find that headlines often over sell the product and under deliver on content.

The star stuck New York Times is out shilling for Jeremy Piven. The Old Gray Lady appears to be smitten with the actor, perhaps that's why it's the only paper reporting that Piven, "convinced a group of fellow actors that he did not violate his contractual obligations when he dropped out of the Broadway play "Speed-the-Plow."

It wasn't that long ago that NFI went head-to-head with the New York Times over its misuse of science and distortion of data in reporting about seafood.

Before she was admonished by the New York Times public editor for the failures of her now discredited story about mercury in sushi tuna, Marion Burros was sleuthing around Gotham spiriting fish samples off to the lab for toxicology tests.