You’ve heard of institutional memory? Well The New York Times has developed institutional Alzheimer’s.Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus outlines the details of a story that is familiar to anyone who’s picked up a newspaper, watched the news on TV or listened to talk radio over the past few days: [A]n important political figure, arrested for engaging in lewd conduct in a public men's room. Married, with children, he told no one. Instead he pleaded guilty without even hiring a lawyer, hoping the problem would quietly disappear. When, as was inevitable, the press got hold of the story, his erstwhile supporters...