New York Times and Wall Street Journal clash over 'anti-Obama' claims.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

The Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief, Robert Thomson, has today claimed the New York Times is "uncomfortable" about his paper's increasing success "while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat".

Thomson made his comments in an angry riposte at the New York Times after it published a column alleging that the paper is "tilting rightwards" and that its owner, Rupert Murdoch, uses it to "play politics".

"Principle is but a bystander at the New York Times," said Thomson, in response to a New York Times column by David Carr, which said Murdoch's conservative preferences were infecting news coverage at the paper he …