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Thanks for posting the after-action report and thanks to the folks from AIM for freeping the NYTimes with us today. They were handing out stickers "I Don't Believe The New York Times" and they gave us some to pass out also.

One fellow stopped by to talk to us about our reasons for protesting outside the New York Times. He took one of the stickers from me. Then he realized that we were FReepers, said as much and gave the sticker back. He did an about face and jaywalked across the street to one of the stores.

Another guy came out of the building, looked at our signs and said, "It's about time you guys protested here." He also walked across the street to pick up some lunch. On his way back he was "thumbs up" all the way across the street.

An older gentleman in a nice suit made his way through our midst. He asked us what union we were with -- much to our amusement.

I was pretty swamped at work today and threw together a few signs. I was running late (but at least I was able to show up) and I brought extra posterboard and markers so everyone could have their own sign. It was great to have 12 people (including the AIM cameraman who spent a lot of time taking pictures from across I Street) arrive for a lunchtime freep.

I had a sign with Registered's Jayson Blair/CNN picture; another sign with a picture of "ARTHUR, HOWELL and GERALD" coming out of or going into the NYT meeting on Wednesday with a further caption "NEW YORK TIMES LIAR'S CLUB"; I copied Matt Drudge's upside down NYTimes logo and announcement of the crisis meeting over top of the DRUDGE REPORT logo for another sign; NEW YORK TIMES - INTEGRITY QUAGMIRE; and the others attending made up their own signs, most of which had "lies" somewhere on them.

The rain held off until very late afternoon so we had good weather walking back and forth in front of the New York Times Washington Bureau.

As Kristinn mentioned, the NYTimes reporter was not really interviewing us after the first couple of questions. She was very aggressively debating and defending the actions of the NYT management and trying very hard to equate problems at other publications with those at her organization. Over and over she would come back to the same theme: The NYT has apologized, said they were sorry; what else would you have them do? What else indeed!

She was very aggressively debating and defending the actions of the NYT management and trying very hard to equate problems at other publications with those at her organization.

That's the clintonesque defense: everyone else does it.

The rain held off until very late afternoon so we had good weather walking back and forth in front of the New York Times Washington Bureau.

The Lord smiled on you guys for a good reason!

Outstanding freep!