“If somebody printed that you would rightly sue them for libel - unless NYT’s editorial staff has been proven to be wife-beaters.”
I don’t believe that is true... You would have to prove that they “could” help but wonder. Kind of like me saying “I think you are guilty of (pick a crime). My statement was that I “think” it; not that you were guilty of it. It’s pretty hard to prove that I didn’t think it...
Oh, I see. That’s how they get around saying that crimes were committed without having to use the “allegedly”.
Sick.
Nidal Hasan ALLEGEDLY went on a shooting spree. Abdulmutallab ALLEGEDLY tried to blow up a plane. Al Qaeda ALLEGEDLY committed the 9-11 attacks.
But as long as somebody is WONDERING WHY there’s been a huge rash of green monsters coming out of the earth and eating whole houses and spitting out the ping pong tables, there doesn’t have to be an “allegedly” or any corroborating details in a NEWS story (not editorial).