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Hard Times.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Media: The New York Times is under fire from the left and right over the handling of its wiretapping story. But that's just the latest in a pattern of embarrassing mistakes and misdeeds by the "paper of record."
It's been all the blues that's fit to print for The New York Times reporters, editors and brass lately. The memory of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal was just fading when veteran Washington reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for protecting a source -- then promptly shown the door amid suggestions of receiving more than leaks from her contacts.
It might have helped if Miller weren't resented by others at the Times for lacking a liberal political agenda.
Now comes 40-year veteran journalist Byron Calame, the Times' "public editor," representing its readers. On New Year's Day, Calame used the Times' own pages to call its explanation for delaying the eavesdropping story for a year "woefully inadequate."
Calame's 28 questions to Executive Editor Bill Keller and publisher Arthur Sulzberger were promptly cold-shouldered.
That tells you a lot right there. The Times' management grandly assigns a seasoned newspaper veteran to write a regular column on the paper itself on behalf of Times readers -- then refuses to cooperate with him.
The real scandal of the eavesdropping story is not the delay of publication at the behest of the ...
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