http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/us/politics/23times.html?ref=politics
A rather short article, this is not the first time a campaign has lashed out against the media for "unfair coverage." Boo-hoo. The NYT unearthed something that nobody had known before and a rather important discovery - that McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, had been paid almost $2 million by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to head a group devoted to defend the mortgage giants against the imposition of stricter regulations.
Steve Schmidt, Senator McCain’s senior campaign adviser, criticized the Times by stating, “Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization...This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be.”
He concluded, “Everything that is read in The New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective.” This sentiment is exactly what all readers should keep in mind while reading the news, that despite the bias and personal narrative, readers should take in the information with a grain of salt.
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