Tucked inside Frank Rich's Sunday column in the New York Times is indication that the newspaper will no longer play ball with the annual White House Correspondents Association dinners in Washington, which he calls "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era." He writes that the event "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows....

I guess it's something, but it's hard to be too impressed by "Times takes steps after its role in promoting the war and...stops attending WHCA dinner."
- tom moody 4-30-2007 7:18 pm