I just cancelled my online NYT subscription. The public editor’s piece on “The Truth About ‘False Balance’” was the last straw. I can take sneering, and I can take ignorance, but I can’t take ignorant sneering:
The problem with false balance doctrine is that it masquerades as rational thinking. What the critics really want is for journalists to apply their own moral and ideological judgments to the candidates.
Josh Marshall correctly describes the situation at the Times as a crisis.