Originally Posted by vasantn
I agree with you about US journalism in general, but the New York Times is one of the best newspapers in the world. Of course they have an editorial slant, but their reporting is first-rate; certainly much better than the once-mighty London Times that has now become a Murdoch rag.
On this score, and I know some will disagree, it seems like over and over again it is the Wall Street Journal that "gets it right." I feel confident saying that this story would never have made it past the editors at the Journal. Certainly the errors would have been corrected and assumptions teased out, but that would have just made it obvious what a foolish story it was in the first place.