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SLATE: The Story The New York Times Won?t Touch. A little more than a year ago, when the Mexican?

By Glenn Reynolds

SLATE: The Story The New York Times Won’t Touch.

A little more than a year ago, when the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim increased his stake in the New York Times Company (NYT), I wrote “I pity the Times Mexico bureau chief who has to tiptoe through who is and isn’t out of favor with the paper’s new sugar daddy.” Now we have a very clear example of how the Times treats Slim within its pages; it’s not pretty, and the journalistic compromise can be seen well beyond Mexico.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).