The first test
The New York Times editorial page, even with the departure of Gail Collins, is still the place where facts get the shortest shrift in that paper -- and that's saying something.
Courtesy of Brit Hume's "Political Grapevine" comes this news:
Letter to the Editor
Vice President Cheney's office has fired off a letter to the editor of The New York Times seeking corrections to an editorial published Sunday.
The editorial accused Cheney of ordering the destruction of visitor records for the vice presidential mansion. Cheney's office cited a letter to the Secret Service requesting that all visitor logs be maintained and preserved.
And the Times wrote that Cheney holds stock options in Halliburton that have grown by millions of dollars in value because of the Iraq war. Cheney's office cited a Times article written in 2001 that said — "Mr. Cheney also gave to charity the after-tax value of his remaining Halliburton options ... three days before Mr. Cheney was sworn in as vice president."
Cheney's office says that adds up to nearly $8 million in donations since then. So far the Times has not published Cheney's letter or made the corrections.
And the Times didn't publish a correction or Cheney's letter in today's paper either.
This will probably be the first test for new Public Editor Clark Hoyt. Let's hope that Hoyt doesn't follow in Byron Calame's lame footsteps.
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My God - do you mean to tell me that the NY Times is full of ****? That it is a rag? That it is not worth wrapping fish in?
And here I thought the NY Times was just a really crappy newspaper run by a bunch of out-of-control leftists.
My bad.
[Hoystory readers can make their points without resorting to George Carlin's famous seven words.]