Originally Posted by filtherton

There's a difference between lying as an aberration from institutional policy and lying as mandated by institutional policy? I've yet to see evidence that the NYT has long-running institutional-wide policies in place to make deception mandatory. Certainly, they've made mistakes, specifically, their coverage of the run up to the invasion of Iraq.


There should be shame in being liars, especially for journalists. It's silly to say that it isn't a big deal because we're all liars.