[okie01]

“It’s been a basic tenet of journalism ... that the reporter’s ideology (has) to be suppressed and submerged, so the reader has absolute confidence that what he or she is reading is not coloured by previous views,” [public editor Dan Okrent] said.

In other words, Dan, one shouldn't get caught slanting the news? It would be "unprofessional" -- because the objective is to confer absolute confidence to slanted reports?

[Robwin]

Oh, pshaw. Another of my childhood beliefs shattered. If you can't trust the NYT, who can you trust?