No Better Than Ezra?

or, It's the Collusion, Stupid, the appearance of collusion, even...

If you've wondered at the oddity of the uber-liberal columnists -- Keller and Kristof, to name two -- who insist that only pre-emptive military action by the U.S. will satisfactorily end Syria's Civil War, perhaps the fellas are just playing a useful political role?

Turns out--
whilst the NYT was editorializing on behalf of the need for Congressional approval to take the country into yet another militarized mid east conflict, top people at the paper were secretly meeting -- off the record, wink wink -- with the president's people...

Still waiting for the paper's independent ombudman to address the issue, now that it's become an... on-the-record recorded fact. ("Discretion is the better part of valor.")

The mainstream media's credibility has taken an incredible hit in recent years: They were found chuckling, a few years back at one of those Washington correspondent's dinners, at GWB's silly skit searching for Saddam's invisible weapons of mass destruction, which led us to first intervene militarily -- hotly, aboveboard -- in the region.

Instead of cleaning house after the media failure -- no honest investigation, just cheerleading half the country into war, while so many stood back and supported the effots by shopping and clapping with purple-painted fingers -- the NYT just reshuffled the personnel deck, it seems.

So here's Bill Keller, back preaching to us about morality, and the threat of ... WMD proliferation, should the US not hotly intervene. He's laughable, no longer credible, nor his elitist civvy opinions taken seriously...

Too bad his employer doesn't realize the value of independence in the news biz: following the facts where they might lead you, by truthfully reporting on what independent, on-the-record sources know about what is actually happening, on the ground...

So the Times wants to rebuild their brand, gain new readers?
No more 'secret' meetings...
It's the Collusion, Stupid, the appearance of collusion, even...

Trust me,
the president doesn't need the help in selling his message.
Why risk further tarnishing the work of others, the reputation for independence and neutrality, in order to jump on the MSNBC and Fox new band of biased 'journolists'?

We need an independent media now more than ever.
Retire Keller already; steer clear of hiring any more ... connected wonks, or their wives, who preach on economic matters with their English degrees; and stop the secret meetings, already.

Duh.

Get back to the basics of honest reporting, and maybe the readers who value intellectual honesty will stop scoffing at the work product turned in by the elder white wisemen who make up the majority of the editorial page...

hth -- Hope this helps.