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ANd, only the NY Post has reported that Jayson Blair had a "gal pal" at the NY Post who has since left her position on the photo staff, and this woman's mom was close personal friends with none other than: the NYT's Howell Raines.

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there was failure, none greater than the staggering, staining failure of The New York Times to depict Hitler's methodical extermination of the Jews of Europe."

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said this himself at a banquet for the 150th anniversary of the New York Times. C-Span covered it.

It is a stunning claim because the Times did cover the plight of Jews in Europe, just not as much as Sulzberger thinks the paper should have. On the other hand, the Times had two reporters, Walter Duranty and Harold Denny, who flat out denied Stalin was murdering millions of Soviet citizens. Pinch had to know this. His comments are, therefore, despicable. The full text of Duranty's 1933 article is here.