The New York Times is doing an excellent imitation of an institution with something to hide.  Or, in the charitable interpretation, incompetent. The story began yesterday, as I noted here.  The Free Beacon dug through records and discovered the inconvenient truth that a major ($100k) donation to the NYT’s pet charity, The Neediest Cases Fund, happened in the same year, 2008, that the Times unexpectedly endorsed Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, for president.  But when the Free Beacon asked the Times for the date of the check, the Times dummied up to the Free Beacon, which broke the story. Instead, the Times sought out another friendlier outlet, Buzzfeed, which headlined: Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement Case closed, right?  Well, not really: A charity administered by the New York Times received a $100,000 check from the Clinton Family Foundation on July 24, 2008, months after the paper...(Read Full Post)