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Grex Agora46 Item 46: Can one change one's spots - or how the NYT has been a hotbed of lies for a good portion of its existence.
Entered by pvn on Sat Jun 28 08:08:34 UTC 2003:

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#4 of 12 by polygon on Mon Jun 30 15:52:08 2003:

Funny how Jayson Blair is held up as discrediting 150 years of NYT
reporting, how Maureen Dowd is excoriated for leaving a few words out of a
GWB quote -- meanwhile, the far worse offenses committed by the media
(INCLUDING the fabled New York Times) in blind pursuit of the Clintons are
forgotten by everyone except Sid Blumenthal. 

In other words, it's perfectly okay for nationally prominent reporters and
columnists to lie, make up quotes, ignore contrary evidence, and so on, as
long as they're doing it to blast a Democrat.  But how DARE they get a
single word out of place when the political figure is a Republican.

But, like I said, conservatives don't believe in symmetry.  Presenting
deliberate lies as news in order to bring down a Democratic president is
holy, exhalted work.  Saying anything the least bit unkind about GWB is
simply treason.