Methinks A Very Porous Wall

Clark Hoyt is serving as the public editor of America's most famous newspaper, The New York Times and was the keynote speaker Friday for Washington and Lee University's 46th Institute on Journalism Ethics, is candid when he says he believes the newspaper does not report fairly.

Hoyt said it was no surprise The Times endorsed Obama, since the majority of its opinion columnists are liberal. That does not mean the news coverage was skewed toward Obama, he said.

He maintains "there is a wall between the Op-Ed page and news. There is tension, not cooperation."

A wall?

Oh, well.

And he went on:

He said society needs good journalism and always will.

"We need accurate, fair and reliable facts," he said. "It is the lifeblood of a democracy. The demand for good journalism is still there."

And we all need a better New York Times.