It's Time for Regime Change at the New York Times

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Make no mistake about it, the current NYT admission that it might have abandoned some basic journalistic principles in its reporting of fiction as fact in regards to the Iraq War -- most noticeably in the blatantly uncorroborated confections of Judith Miller -- is as disingenuous as the articles that they want us to believe they are admitting should not have been posted in the first place.
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The DailyHowler.com is the best chronicler of the outrageously sneering and biased news coverage the NYT (and Washington Post) have shown toward Democratic presidential candidates and Bill Clinton. But you don't need a daily scorecard. Just remember that it was the New York Times that kept alive a Whitewater story that was a non-story and blew on its embers until Kenneth Starr was able to find a sexual act to try and bring down Clinton. At that point, the NYT passed the baton to the Washington Post, which became a regular outlet for Starr's slimy leaks, although the NYT still continued to give disproportionate coverage to the trumped up impeachment efforts. It never fully acknowledged its errors in being led by the nose down the fruitless Whitewater and impeachment path by rabid Republican leakers who pedaled Richard Mellon Scaife-funded "research" to the NYT. If only the NYT had and would apply such passion and resources to exposing the REAL abuses of democracy undertaken daily be the Bush administration.
And let's not forget that in one its few investigative efforts over the past few years, the disastrous Wen Ho Lee attack job on the Clinton administration blew up in its face. Nor can we willingly accept how the NYT acted as if Bush were legitimately elected, instead of intensely investigating and analyzing the theft of a presidential election.
And the NYT played a key role in propagating the ridiculous caricature that Al Gore was a liar, while it did little to expose the truth about George W. Bush's disastrous and dissembling history as an individual and as governor of Texas. As the "paper of record," one of its most fundamental failures has been allowing a gaggle of its political reporters to go along with the Republican tactic of propagating caricatures of Democratic presidential candidates. When has a NYT political reporter written repeatedly about the chronic lying of the Bush administration? Where's the proportionality that marks good journalistic news judgment?
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http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/06/edi04039.html