Finally! Some real “digging” into a prominent figure not named Sarah Palin. Or Todd Palin. Or Bristol Palin. Or Trig Palin. Or Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy.
— But don’t get too excited. The NYT’s Jodi Kantor wasn’t interested in vetting Barack Obama — or even John McCain, for that matter. No, in this instance the target of “inquiry” was far more crucial: Cindy McCain. And Ms Kantor sought the help of friends (and their parents) of the McCain’s 16-year-old daughter Bridget, trying to contact them through Facebook, to dig up dirt on the potential First Lady.
Journalism.
Kantor’s e-mail is a masterful melange of dishonesty and feigned innocence. You’d have to be delusional to think that if she had gotten a flood of glowing e-mails touting Cindy McCain as a model mother that her article would have appeared at all.
She was digging for dirt, pure and simple. She got some and ran with it, even though Cindy McCain’s representative debunked her star witnesses and begged them to leave off even before the story went to press.
The truth of it is that the New York Times has made itself the propaganda arm of Barack Obama’s campaign. That is why you’ve seen them print front page stories that were so flimsy that the National Enquirer wouldn’t even seriously touch them. I agree with Goldstein. At this point, the Times might as well be running Bat Boy stories.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeff Goldstein, John McCain, Media Bias, New York Times
