Reply #45: It's remarkable how far down the scale of reliability the NYTimes has gone

[Dover]

in their slide toward total irrelevance as a propaganda arm of the government. It will take a great deal of REAL independent journalism to recover their integrity...if that's even possible. Their research/investigative skills have atrophied from lack of use.

And many of the problems were editorial. The reporters were reporting but their stories were either cut or hidden so deep that one had to have great fortitude to wade through the propaganda to find them. This told me that the decisions made at the top had a specific agenda.

NYTimes...do you REALLY want to come clean? Try giving us a real and indepth investigative story of what really went down inside the NYTimes over the past three years. What agreements did the NYTimes make with Bushco or their corporate sponsors. It was obvious that a curtain was pulled down over critical analysis of the administration...particularly in the first few months after 9/11, but which has continued to a large extent.

Still wondering about the NYT employee who purportedly lept from your rooftop.

Still far too many questions to give some kind of unconditional acceptance. In fact, if WE THE PEOPLE were to give such unconditional acceptance after this gross negligence and deceipt, WE wouldn't be doing our civic duty.

Here's a few assignment which you could actually investigate to make it up to us:

The 2000 Election coup and voting debacle (then and now).

Why did you run the J. O'Neill briefcase story...out of the blue and then never really follow his story and ultimate demise?

Which brings us to 9/11. Although many groups and web sites have already done much of your homework for you and asked the truly hard questions...maybe they'll let you borrow their notes.

Anthrax story: ditto (see above)

That would be a very good start. I won't hold my breath.