Pay No Attention to the Columnist Behind the TimesSelect Curtain
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A federal appeals court greenlighted former Army scientist Stephen Hatfill to proceed with his libel action against New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof yesterday. Kristof published a series of 2002 columns accusing the FBI of dragging its feet in investigating Hatfill as a full-blown suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. You know, it was also Kristof who was the first person who reported on Joe Wilson's charge that the Bush administration's Niger yellow-cake cause for invading Iraq was bogus, thereby setting in motion the inadvertent chain of events landing Judy Miller in jail between extended bouts in Scooter Libby's (merely metaphorical, we're sure) lap. We're not advancing an argument here, just noting an odd congruence. But we will note that if we were Times senior management, we'd closely heed Kristof's veiled appeal in today's Editor and Publisher piece on the TimesSelect fiasco:
Pay No Attention to the Columnist Behind the TimesSelect Curtain
Pay No Attention to the Columnist Behind the…
Pay No Attention to the Columnist Behind the TimesSelect Curtain
A federal appeals court greenlighted former Army scientist Stephen Hatfill to proceed with his libel action against New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof yesterday. Kristof published a series of 2002 columns accusing the FBI of dragging its feet in investigating Hatfill as a full-blown suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. You know, it was also Kristof who was the first person who reported on Joe Wilson's charge that the Bush administration's Niger yellow-cake cause for invading Iraq was bogus, thereby setting in motion the inadvertent chain of events landing Judy Miller in jail between extended bouts in Scooter Libby's (merely metaphorical, we're sure) lap. We're not advancing an argument here, just noting an odd congruence. But we will note that if we were Times senior management, we'd closely heed Kristof's veiled appeal in today's Editor and Publisher piece on the TimesSelect fiasco: