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New York Times in Denail About ACORN Story

Some people are so much superior that, when they gaze at their own navels, they abs where there is only lint and flab. And so goes the New York Times missing the target. A week or so ago, a story about ACORN's corruption broke. Why wasn't the newspaper of record on this story? Does ?media bias? explain the inattention? The Times' public editor spends several paragraphs rationalizing the failing, before obtaining this concession: Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was ?slow off the mark,? and blamed ?insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.? Isn?t that something? The reason the Times missed the ACORN story was because they are too good for you flyover state rednecks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 27, 2009 (boomark / email).