Reply #37: Point taken...but is their "product" deteriorating...? [View All]

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...due to their unwillingness to take risks by bucking the Bush administration on national and world desk stories?

Are they so afraid of getting kicked off of Air Force One that they are routinely spiking stories like this:

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/bush-bulge.html

days before the presidential election, the New York Times killed a story about the mysterious object George W. Bush wore on his back during the presidential debates, journalist Dave Lindorff reveals in an exclusive report on this week's CounterSpin, FAIR's weekly radio show. The spiked story included compelling photographic and scientific evidence that would have contradicted Bush's claim that the bulge on his back was just a matter of poor tailoring.

"The New York Times assigned three editors to this story and had it scheduled to run five days before the election, which would have raised questions about the president's integrity," said Lindorff. "But it was killed by top editors at the Times; clearly they were chickening out of taking this on before the election." <snip>