“...the ad violated The Times’s own written standards, and the paper now says that the advertiser got a price break it was not entitled to.”
“The ad infuriated conservatives, dismayed many Democrats and ignited charges that the liberal Times aided its friends at MoveOn.org with a steep discount in the price paid to publish its message, which might amount to an illegal contribution to a political action committee.”
“...the ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that says, ‘We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature.’”
(Clark Hoyt, The Public Editor, New York Times, September 23, 2007)
Can we now end this silly argument about whether or not The New York Times (and the rest of its cohorts in the mainstream press) has a clear and overwhelming liberal bias? There simply is no argument.
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