It is one thing for journalism to be in perennial opposition to the sitting political administration, a gadfly,"comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" as that smirking, self-congratulatory bit of cant goes. That is not the case here. The NY Times is, on the contrary, an Orwellian Ministry Of Truth that covers for the sitting administration, ridicules and represses its critics, and acts at no point as an honest broker, not even when it deigns to notice the numerous and systematic outrages of this criminal regime. It doesn't need an ombudsman, it needs to go broke and go away.
You know, I think this paper is having buyers remorse regarding the way this country is going, particularly when the administration started going after the journalists. First we had the unflattering portrait of the Clinton Foundation, and now this. At first I thought they were merely trying to pave the way for a non-Hillary candidate for the next election, but now I’m thinking that even the NY Times writers are deeply disturbed about the current events. You know they have sources the rest of us don’t. I think the CNN interview today was a signal that things may change.