NYT's Stanley: Unbalanced

So Fox News is demanding that the NYT print some kind of correction to Alessandra Stanley's piece that described the net as "the conservative cable network." The Times's culture editor, Steven Erlanger, sees things differently: "Our decision was that Alessandra, writing as a critic, is well within her rights to call Fox pretty much whatever she wants."

Continued Erlanger: Nyah-nyah-nah-nah!

OK, seriously -- we're confused: Someone's complaining about Fox being called "conservative," but we can't get Erlanger to apologize for calling Stanley a "critic"?

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