Keller's Cynical Staff Member

Just as Slate’s Jack Shafer was asking if we trust President Bush more than Bill Keller, we saw the New York Times editor on Charlie Rose quoting a particularly “cynical” member of his staff. The staffer, he said, noted that a lot of the denunciations of the Times’ coverage of the terror banking story came through microphones at Republican Party fundraisers. “Beating up on The New York Times is red meat for a certain part of the Republican base,” Keller said.

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