Our Media Rulezzz

Eric Boehlert, again doing the much-needed work of holding our media's feet to the flames, with the depressingly bluntly titled "The NY Times sends a Dittohead to interview Rush Limbaugh."

I'm all for giving editors leeway in assigning writers for magazine cover stories. But I can't help wondering if Times public editor Clark Hoyt ought to look at this situation and determine whether the Timeshas ethical guidelines that generally frown upon hiring, in this case, a Democrat-bashing opinion writer to pen a magazine cover story about a Democrat-bashing media figure without ever letting readers in on the political alliance at play.

Journalism isn't supposed to hideperspectives and context. It's supposed to add them. Here, the Timesdeliberately did the opposite; it purposefully duped its readers.

Read the whole thing here.