Cheap Shot
"WASHINGTON- After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to MoveOn.org for a full-page advertisement assailing Gen. David Petraeus. The liberal advocacy group should have paid $142,000 for the ad callling the U.S. commander in Iraq "General Betray Us," not $65,000, the paper's public editor wrote Sunday.
"We made a mistake, " Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was quoted as saying.
"The Times also violated its own advertising policy, which bars 'attacks of a personal nature.' [Public editor ] Clark Hoyt added that the episode 'gave fresh ammunition to a cottage industry that loves to bash the Times as a bastion of the 'liberal media.'"
I hear you. Clark, The nerve of some people. P.S.- that "cottage industry" is also known as "the internet." Which makes it one big old cottage if you ask me.
"We made a mistake, " Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was quoted as saying.
"The Times also violated its own advertising policy, which bars 'attacks of a personal nature.' [Public editor ] Clark Hoyt added that the episode 'gave fresh ammunition to a cottage industry that loves to bash the Times as a bastion of the 'liberal media.'"
I hear you. Clark, The nerve of some people. P.S.- that "cottage industry" is also known as "the internet." Which makes it one big old cottage if you ask me.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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P.S. Fresh ammunition? I still haven't come close to running out of the OLD stuff.