I let my daily and weekend subscription to the NYT lapse about 2 years ago.I found the bias to be too great to tolerate any longer. Plus the hypocrisy regarding Jayson Blair turned my stomach.

Plus Maureen Dowd has become a screaming Mimi...Alas, I miss William Safire...

MLT

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I tend to agree. Unless it took them a year to actually verify the information they had initially gotten, they should have come out with this way back when.

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I tend to agree. Unless it took them a year to actually verify the information they had initially gotten, they should have come out with this way back when.

NPR had a guest (a media/politics "expert") who reached that same conclusion. Apparently the administration asked the NYT to hold the story for "security" reasons. The guest compared the situation to when the Times had found out about the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Kennedy administration and the CIA asked the Times to hold the story. Ultimately, the Times ran the story. The guest said the Times should have handled the NSA abuse in the same way.

Heard the same interview; it was a former reporter for the Times: "For a year, The New York Times held a story that President Bush had authorized domestic wiretaps without a warrant. Former Times reporter Alex Jones, now director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Kennedy School of Government, comments on the paper's decision." Listen to it here. I would note that Jones said the Times ran the Bay of Pigs story in a "different form" and only one column wide.

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