Who polices the press cont.

publius @ Obsidian Wings catches and then rips the New York Times again, this time it's Helene Cooper just making shit up.

So let's say I'm Helene Cooper of the NYT. And let's say I have a great idea for an article -- the premise is that Obama knocks down pretend strawmen in his speeches just like Bush used to do (e.g., "Some have said..."). It would be a good idea for an article -- if it were true. But it's not, as about 15 minutes of Google and Lexis would show. But Cooper went ahead and wrote it anyway.

The NYT won't have to look very far during the post-mortem.