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Because we've come to believe that media bloglord Jim Romenesko exists on a level beyond reason or understanding, we've not paid too much attention to news of his crazy-ass salary. Anonyblog Mediacrity, however, was more or less the first "publication" to detail the salary and, as such, is mighty pissed that the Times has failed to give proper credit. Yeah, well, welcome to Life, grasshopper. Nevertheless, reading angry blogrants are fun:

Today I received two emails from Hubert Herring of the New York Times, the last of which, received a few minutes ago, says as follows: "If you will give your name, we will consider running a correction."

Note that the Times doesn't pretend that there were no violations of its policy or errors. It simply doesn't want to run a correction! I responded as follows:

"No, Mr. Herring, I am not going to give you my name. As I indicated earlier, I am not asking you to run a letter. I am asking YOU to correct an error in your newspaper, for the benefit of YOUR readers. You do not need my name in order to determine that 1) You failed to properly credit my blog and 2) Your article contained errors."

Oh, but you KNOW an anonymous blogger has more to say than just that. Full diatribe after the jump.

"My request for a correction stands.

"I am actually a little (a tiny bit) stunned by the arrogance of your response. Yes, yours is an arrogant newspaper. But it is not often that the arrogance is quite so 'in your face.'"

"The fact that my blog is anonymous is not a license to steal for the New York Times. Neither is does it have any bearing on the fact that you violated the code of ethics by failing to properly credit my blog."

I copied Barney Calame on this correspondence, in which I presume Hubert here was speaking for Times management. Let's see what happens.

We can guess what happens, actually, and it begins with a "N" and ends with a "OTHING."