By Any Means Necessary

Roger Simon has some thoughts on his once-beloved New York Times:

"Okay, now we get personal. The demise of The New York Times has been an extraordinary shock to me and a kind of benchmark for my own political migration. Like most New York Jewish boys from liberal homes the paper was a replacement religion for me. Many decades ago, when I was twenty-three and published my first novel, finding a short positive review in the Book Review validated me as a writer, enabling me to go on with my risky career. . . . This kind of biased behavior is unconscionable. Although it is nowhere near as drastic, of course, it makes me think of the days of Walter Duranty, that Timesman who won a Pultizer while white-washing Stalin. How could such things happen, I always wondered. Now I know. They happen when people think they are doing the right thing for the right cause and in their zeal don't stop to consider the reality of what they are saying and writing. Yes, this is worse than Jayson Blair."

During the height of Rathergate, our own Wilfred McClay addressed this warped worldview here last month, and if you haven't read "The Triumph of Political Pornography in the Land of Oz," I urge you to do so now.

Update: Roger Simon has posted further thoughts.