THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

How the NY Times killed the Bush bulge-under-the-jacket-during-the-debate story.

The "newspaper of record" has disgraced itself over the course of the last decade, both in its biased and discredited reporting on Clinton and its gullible and sycophantic coverage of the Chimp. In coming years I expect journalism schools will use it as a prime example of how quickly the reputation of a major media outlet can be ruined by lazy investigating, questionable ethics, poor quality control, and too-cozy relationships with "anonymous sources" and the objects of its reporting.