“Covering” the story without actually telling it:

I mentioned on March 18, when the Wright affair was first in the news, that the [New York] Times had not reported the “God damn America” quote in its news sections.  (The only time it had appeared in the paper at that point was in a Bill Kristol column.)  Then, on March 26, I pointed it out again, although by that time it had also been mentioned in a Maureen Dowd column.  Now, I should say that it has been mentioned again in the paper — over the weekend, in an editorial condemning the North Carolina Republican Party for its Wright ad...  OK, that's three mentions on the editorial page.  But the news pages of the Times still have a clean record — they have never reported Wright's original “God damn America” quote.

So what do they do today? - Byron York at The Corner [links in original - o.g.]

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