NYeT: Keeping Our Options Open

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com One of the several reasons why the mainstream media have consistently underestimated the significance of the Trinity/Wright/Pfleger story is that, to a considerable degree, conventional reporters and editors tend to agree with Rev. Wright's critique of America. A good illustration of this was the href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/weekinreview/04powell.html?pagewanted=1">New York Times's article on black liberation theology in which the paper endorsed as true Wright's claim that the United States has used biological warfare against other nations. What on earth could the Times reporter have had in mind? In any event, this morning's Times href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html">corrects the error: An article on May 4 about black liberation theology and the debate surrounding the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr, Senator Barack Obama’s former minister, erroneously confirmed a statement by Mr. Wright that the United States has used biological weapons against other countries. There is no evidence that the United States ever did so. Note, though, that the paper is keeping its options open.