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ED MORRISSEY: The Shame And Hypocrisy of the New York Times. ?Advising people not to jump to concl?

By Glenn Reynolds

ED MORRISSEY: The Shame And Hypocrisy of the New York Times. “Advising people not to jump to conclusions in the immediate aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings was good advice. Too bad the New York Times wanted to smear its political opponents so badly with this shooting in Arizona that they couldn?t accept their own counsel. Like CNN, the Times holds itself out as a supposedly non-partisan source of news and information, and like CNN, their hypocrisy reveals the truth now in a particularly ugly manner.”

As I’ve said before, they know how to be exquisitely sensitive to questions of fairness when they want to be. When they’re not so sensitive, it’s because they don’t want to be.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).