Do we have a "closet Conservative" as the Exec. Editor of The NY Times?

[im10ashus]

Byron Calame, The Public Editor at The New York Times has finally uncovered the truth about the timing of the decision regarding when to publish the story on the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program.

The bottom line of Calame's report? New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller, lied to his paper's readers when he said (in a Dec.

16, 2005 article) that The Times had "delayed publication for a year", which meant no such action had occurred prior to the 2004 presidential election.

As Keller recently told Calame, "It was probably inelegant wording,"..."I don't know what was in my head at the time."

Having admitted to Calame that The Times was dealing with the "publish or not" question prior to the 2004 election, Keller later said "I can't remember" when asked if the wording and the sensitivity of the election-day timing issue were discussed internally at The Times.

cont'd...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/do-we-have-a-closet-cons_b_27285.html

[acmavm]

1. Closet conservative? I don't know, I think it's rather obvious.

[Cassandra]

2. No door on that closet.

Keller's been a neo-con, or at least pretty conservative in his foreign policy views, for a long time.