All the denials, all the defensive explanations, all the lies told by spokesmen for the New York Times have all been shown to be an effort to hide the truth from the American people.The Times Public Editor (formerly known as "Ombudsman") has revealed that virtually every charge made by defenders of General Petraeus was true:Did MoveOn.org get favored treatment from The Times? And was the ad outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse? The answer to the first question is that MoveOn.org paid what is known in the newspaper industry as a standby rate of $64,575 that it should not have received under Times policies. The group should have paid $142,083. The Times had maintained for a week that the standby rate was appropriate, but a company spokeswoman told me late Thursday afternoon that an advertising sales representative made a mistake. The answer to the second question is that the ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that...(Read Full Post)