[goldstategop]

Listing Gray Lady. Excuse me while I get a hanky...

[Shermy]

"Listing Gray Lady. Excuse me while I get a hanky..."

They have only themselves to blame. They made the Blair story front page Sunday. They could have buried it on page 15 Wednesday and said "sorry, won't happen again" - end of story. Whatever political or emotional reasons compelled them to sensationalize the story, the reasons are their own doing.

[jackbill]

Some papers have chosen to express their revised view of the Times with actions rather than words. The Lufkin (Texas) Daily News dropped New York Times editorialist Maureen Dowd's column from its editorial page on Friday in response to a column in which she misrepresented the meaning of a remark made by President Bush.

Apparently, the day after Dowd's piece ran, the Sacramento Bee ran an editorial critical of President Bush, based on Dowd's distortion. According the James Taranto (WSJ's OpinionJournal.com), The Sac Bee apologized last Friday for being taken in by Dowd.