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Yes, the Times. Parts are still great ("Metropolitan Diary"), but where the skin of the Times apple touches the Beltway barrel, it's started to shrivel and rot. And New Yorkers know it. In a wonderful review of a biography of the late, great columnist, reporter, and writer A.J. Liebling, David Remnick writes:

Liebling was an indifferent stenographer. He had no future at the Times.
(via The New Yorker)

Could Remnick have had Judith "Kneepads" Miller in mind? (back) I like to think so.

UPDATE Howell Raines defends himself in the latest Atlantic (NY Daily News via the Kansas City Star. Funny thing. I keep hearing "Jayson Blair" but I never hear "Jeff Gerth" and "Whitewater." The Times sold its soul with those stories, long ago. It's a sadness.