The New York Times Steals From Charles Johnson

Maybe the Gray Lady is trying to "fake but accurate" behind, but it's not really getting ahead of the curve for the Times to claim credit for the research of others.

In his latest excuse for the New York Times’ biased coverage, “public editor” Clark Hoyt casually claims that a Times reporter unmasked a fake Iranian missile photo.

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.

Uh, no. We’ve been through this before, and the New York Times did not break this story. We did.