Thursday, June 05, 2003 :::
I'm not sure what to think. I know, intellectually, that it's been bad for Raines to be at the Times. It would be better for the Times to be a better paper. If everyone recognized that it was no longer a reliable news source, and switched to the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal, or USA Today, that would be fine, too, but that's not what Raines has done to the Times. He's made it substantially worse, but only hurt its reputation a little. People have still trusted it, and if people are going to trust a paper, we're better off having it actually be trustworthy.
On the other hand, it's disappointing not to have Nixon to kick around anymore, if one has enjoyed kicking Nixon. I haven't read Andrew Sullivan today (I'm composing this off-line), but if he is reacting to Raines's downfall with unmitigated glee, he's a better man than I. Which I expect of him.
Speaking of newspapers getting things wrong, the Guardian claims Wolfowitz said that the war was about oil, which wasn't at all what was said. And this guy has collected a bunch of links to similar errors.
::: posted by Steven at 2:49 PM
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