Business as usual
In response to the NYT’s McCain story, the Washington Times writes:
The New York Times’ recent hit-and-run on John McCain is a moment of reckoning for the “newspaper of record.”
I must confess that, after reading the first line of the editorial, I did not read on, because the premise is ludicrous. If there were no “moments of reckoning” after it published national security secrets, ran Abu Ghraib on the front page 32 days in a row, used phony soldiers to sully the reputation of all, and violated its own advertising policy to smear a general, there certainly will not be one over the relatively minor offense of smearing (without a shred of evidence) a Republican presidential candidate.
That’s not a reckoning. It’s all in a day’s work.