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In case you missed this post over the weekend, Atrios made a great find in Eric Boehlert's new book, Lapdogs

Executive editor Howell Raines wanted to show his right-wing critics wrong. "According to half a dozen sources within the Times, Raines wanted to prove once and for all that he wasn't editing the paper in a way that betrayed his liberal beliefs," wrote Seth Mnookin in his 2004 Times expose, Hard News. Mnookin quoted Doug Frantz, the former investigative editor of the Times, who recalled how "Howell Raines was eager to have articles that supported the war-mongering out of Washington. He discouraged pieces that were at odds with the administration's position on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and the alleged links of Al Qaeda."

Got that? While the administration was fixing the facts to match the policy, the NYT was fixing the stories to prove their bona fides with the right-wing. I thought journalism was about pursuing the truth?

The media have fully internalized the right-wing critique that there is a "liberal media bias." If you doubted that, this should take care of that.

When will the backlash start? Are we there yet?

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