According to Andrew C. McCarthy, the New York Times coverage of Judge Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has been dreadful -- but predictable.
The Times, however, can’t keep it to the opinion pages. Day after day, news coverage in a once-great newspaper devolves into Left-wing polemic, to the point where there is no longer a qualitative difference between the Times and The Nation. Save one: The Nation, self-described “flagship of the left,” has no pretensions about being anything other than the Nation; the Times still pretends to be the Newspaper of Record — and continues to be treated that way by the “mainstream” press (which itself still pretends to be mainstream).
The problem, of course, is that we are supposed to get an accurate account of what the record is before we start a partisan brawl about what it means. That’s not possible with the Times anymore. Monday’s hatchet job on Michael B. Mukasey, the former federal judge tapped by President Bush to be the nation’s next attorney general, is proof positive.
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