WTF! NYT AWOL on the McClellan bombshell two consecutive days. Will Friday make three?

[Bozita]

Not a single word in the print edition. Two straight days. I checked both papers twice.

On Olbermann's broadcast on Wednesday, John Dean said Scottie's story, if true, was much worse than anything Richard Nixon did.

Yet the New York Times, the paper of record, gives its readers not a clue.

Does Bill Keller have the guts to ignore the story for a third consecutive day?

[Mutineer]

1. Scottie-Boy has now more or less issued a retraction

saying the president didn't lie to him. I guess no one cares that it still means the VP and everyone else was lying to him. Plus lying to your press secretaries is something that seems to happen in every administration. They are purposefully left out of the loop.

[gatorboy]

10. Retracting his own quote?

Hilarious. It's as if he never left....

[SpiralHawk]

12. You must take into account republicon mindset

republicons are not like normal Americans.

Lies and "mis-speaking" are their THING. The only thing.

[shraby]

2. Actually if they continue in the mode they are in,

they better start thinking about what happened to the newspaper of note during Hitler's time and what the owner got for his troubles.

[EFerrari]

3. This would be a good question to ask the Public Editor.

I miss real newspapers. :(

[Didereaux]

4. its a non-story unless and until a flat statement is made...the publisher has closed that door.

An page A28 story for NYT at the very best.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Isn't This Still A Rumor That's Being Backpeddled On?

They've gotten caught before in a trap set by the Bushies to get the Times to publish stuff that makes them look foolish. They won't print until it's in print and they have the context correct.

[madrchsod]

6. could this be the reason ?--->

"2005-02-24 REPORTER\'S PRIVILEGE UPHELD IN ISLAMIC CHARITY INVESTIGATION. A federal judge in New York has ruled that telephone records of two New York Times reporters may not be disclosed to federal prosecutors in Chicago. U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is also the special prosecutor in the unrelated Valerie Plame investigation,

----->subpoenaed the phone records of reporters Judith Miller, who is also under subpoena in the Plame investigation, and Philip Shenon in a grand jury investigation into whether government agents leaked a planned raid on an Islamic charity suspected of funding terrorists. Prosecutors contend, and the Times denies, that the charity was alerted to the raid when the reporters who received the leak called the charity for comment.<---------

U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled that Miller and Shenon's telephone records were protected by a qualified reporter's privilege under the First Amendment and federal common law, and that prosecutors had failed to overcome the privilege."



http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=14876
firstamendmentcenter.org: news

[soothsayer]

7. Even I post stories months before the useless Times does

[Rageneau]

8. No NYT = No Iraq War, no Whitewater investigation, no 'Gore invented the Internet', etc.

The New York Whore Times occasionally does a good job, not because it tries to, but because it has so many good writers, a few of them are honest and can get things past the editors.

Considering its position and obligation, the New York Times has done more damage to our democracy than it has done good.

[Bozita]

9. 3rd straight day without mentioning Scott McClellan -- not one single word

disappointing.

[IDemo]

11. I see one story buried in the 'US' section online:

(registration may be required)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Press-Secretary-Books.html

Looks to be more concerned with the "dilemma" former staffers face with tell-all books than it does with the actual story itself..

[Bozita]

13. but nothing in the print edition

[AnotherMother4Peace]

14. But...but... but, Natalie Holloway - that's important: More Natalie Holloway

Our president & vice president outing CIA agents: jeopardizing the lives of those who serve our nation in such a heroic and dangerous way. Endangering their lives, and the lives of those they've dealt with. Sending the message to present & potential covert agents: your identity is NOT protected. That sounds like headline news to me. But all we get is crap news.

[Bozita]

15. Mike Malloy is talking about this now.