Ever since the NY Times decided to install the more pliable Clark Hoyt as their "Public Editor", self criticism has decreased. Funny how that happens. Well, Mr. Hoyt offers up yet another "move along, nothing to see here" moment with his defense of the paper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas Conflict.

Here is the howler of the article:

{photographer Patrick}Witty and his colleagues are frustrated because Israel has barred journalists from entering Gaza, and although The Times has two photographers in the region ready to go, it must rely on pictures taken by Palestinian photographers. "When I can't have my own person there, I have to question every picture that comes in -- to an obsessive degree," he said. Last summer, Witty unmasked as a fake a photo of an Iranian missile test that ran on many other front pages.

And, as NB dutifully points out, it wasn't Witty who caught the fauxtography, but none other than LGF.

In essence, the Paper of Record is busy setting out a possible meme that if you can't trust the reporting in Gaza, it isn't the fault of Hamas or the pro-Hamas sympathies of The Dinosaurs; instead, all of the fault of the accuracy of the reporting comes from Israel.

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