The Anchoress

Well, this IS amazing, and only 15 days into it, to! But let Michelle tell it, because she was such a force behind keeping the story alive (and as you know, I doubted, so I get to stand in the corner!):

After 15 days of silence, the New York Times has filed a thin little report on the Air Scamerica/Air Enron fiasco. But you need a magnifying glass to find it. Go the the NYTimes.com homepage. Nothing there. Click over the National section. Nothing there. Find your way to the NY/Region section. Scroll way down past the featured stories.

A ha! There it is: Bronx Boys Club’s Finances Investigated

Aw. How cute! What a staid, buttoned-down headline. Not “Air America Financing Investigated,” or “Liberal Talk Radio Financing Investigated” or “Spitzer Bears Down On
Limbaugh (oops) Franken.” None of those loud, blare-y, horn-blowing headlines for the NY Times, uh-uh, no sir! Wouldn’t want anyone to notice, after all!

Hey, the NY Times has published something on a story they seemed determined to ignore. It’s a start. Although, unhappily - if you read Michelle - you see that the Times reporters chose to edit Al Franken’s public remarks in a way I’d always been told was kind of unprofessional and…not…what a journalist is supposed to do…but what would I know, eh? I mean, the Times hires J-School grads - I’m just a lowly suburban mom.

But, as Leon says at Macho Nachos, “… they are only two weeks behind the curve, which means that they are slowly but surely catching up to the rest of the world.”

Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses, please and voice a huzzah! I give you…the paper of record.