Times Has a Problem

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For decades, the customary and accepted way to dodge responsibility for mistakes on your watch was to say, “Mistakes were made.” Now the Times has upped the ante to “Mistakes weren’t made.” If our mailbag is any measure, it’s having an effect.

From TPM Reader MT

Quick comment about your Biden piece, but really my comment is about Hillary and the Times. You capture the increasingly bizarre Times coverage of Clinton’s campaign nicely. From a personal perspective, when I saw the headline about Biden considering a run in the Times I immediately dismissed it as being newsworthy because it appeared first in the Times. I don’t recall doing that since the run up to the Iraq war and Judith Miller’s brilliant reporting. One difference, however. With Iraq, they get fooled. With Clinton, they are part of the disinformation process.

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