I am not a fan of the NY Times, but this goes beyond mere bias. What you have described is completely unethical behavior. If true, people should lose their jobs over this.

It was a long day yesterday, sorry for my mistake!

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/NATION/881355301/1001

As Americans kick off the first holiday weekend of the summer Friday, Sen. John McCain will release 400 pages of his medical records to a handpicked group of reporters who can neither photocopy nor keep the documents, illustrating the sensitivity the campaign places on the 71-year-old candidate’s age and health.

Don’t you think that it’s not just the campaign that is saying that the documents are sensitive, but also the government, after all this does fall under the HIPPA Privacy Law?

For years and years, the New York Times has been a thinly veiled Democratic Party hit machine. They’re treatment of the Presumptive Republican Nominee John McCain this year has been… something less than fair and honest.
Its an open secret t…

Still nothing!

Ed Morrissey on May 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM

RushBaby, check back some time after the House passes a complete farm bill (without omissions). :)

Update II: Still no response from the Times at 6:30 am ET, 5/22. I’m bumping this to the Top Picks for a while to see if a little more exposure works.

Gee, I keep popping in here to read that response. Still no email back?

bridgetown on May 22, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Your friend is the exception who proves the rule.

I have a friend who claims Mensa membership based on SAT scores from 45 years ago (too cowardly to take the Mensa qualifier itself). This friend (whose political opinions are the complete obverse of mine) gave me a subscription to Newsweek, claiming that it presented the news as fact, unlike blogs. I cancelled the subscription before it ever arrived in my mailbox. Some people may be vocabulary-smart but critical-thinking stupid.

And if so, do you really think your local newspaper will publish a correction to any story published in the NYT?

The only people who give an importance to papers like the NYT are the liberal and the republican pundits and the politicians.

You can monitor the Times, but if it was me, I would’ve completely ignored it.

The NYT gets it power from you, remember that.

Don’t feed what’s irrelevant.

Well, they’re really more guidelines, than rules….

Triple Shot Thursday: Ed Morrissey has an interesting story up
Does the New York Times leverage access to campaign events through threats of negative news articles? According to one source at the McCain campaign, the answer is yes. (Ed mentions many of…

Via Dan Spencer and Soren Dayton, though, we have the relevant portion of the NYT’s Ethics Policy:

Um, that’s the old version from 1991. Here’s the current New York Times Ethics Policy:

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Oh come on, Ed. The Times isn’t violating it’s own ethics policy! It’s just applying those emergency rules: It is when the debate becomes artificially one-sided that the public is misled by shysters like Keith Olbermann, who openly admits he……

to a tightly controlled group of reporters on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.

Everyone but the NYT are invited, and the noose gets tighter. No worry, Obama will make sure there is an extra seat on his plane for the NYT.