YOU DON’T HAVE TO GIVE A SHIT WHAT SOMEBODY IN POWER TELLS YOU:
“I regret any error that ever got into the paper, but from where I sat, there was a total congruence — everything was coalescing around one message,” he said, noting that The Times was far from alone in its reporting. “I was suspicious, and perhaps I should have been more aggressive in pursuing that suspicion.”
Yes, you should have, given that being suspicious of what people in power say is YOUR ENTIRE GODDAMN JOB. You are not there for anything else. It’s one thing to report the message that government officials are putting out. It’s another to act like that message makes you helpless to say anything about it. God, what a morally bankrupt, cowardly little asshole. “Ooh, this guy said a thing, from a very big podium, which made it hard for me to open my mouth and use words to ask questions, because of magic and sorcery.” What in the fuck were you, oh great editor of the New York Times, afraid of?
And what COULD you have been afraid of that would have been worse than helping to prop up a war that left hundreds of thousands of people dead AND TURNED OUT TO BE BULLSHIT?
A.