NY Times also doing a hatchet job today on John McCain. If it was on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, the story would never see the light of day.
For a long time now I've maintained the Old Grey Whore is no longer the paper of record. That distinction falls upon the erstwhile tabloid, Weekly World News (who still maintains a Web presence).
My critics have replied, "There is nothing factual in Weekly World News". (In fact, one of these critics told me he was once a "fact checker" for the paper!) But this is not entirely true.
But no matter.
The Times foists stories like this off on us because they think they can get away with it.
Most of the time, they can.
However, it's days like this that we can see the Emperor has no clothes. We can also see he also has no fact checkers.
It's because of dichotomies like this that I made the initial boast about News Leadership.
And in spite of it all (or, maybe
because of it all!), even with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I stand by that initial statement.
The Times is now little more than a daily urban edition of Grit, and I say this with all due respect to the fabled weekly paper.
Unless you're a New Yorker (it does have it's moments in local coverage), reading this rag may make you appear snobbish, it may make you elitist, but it won't leave you particularly well informed.
Just my $.02 on a populist view of an effete Liberal Eastern institution....
