Verified: New York Times Is A Crappy Newspaper

Everybody hates the Times now. Not even a good lapdog.

In the span of 48 hours, the New York Times was blasted for a story a White House official deemed to be “100% inaccurate,” and then embarrassed by a dishy new book by former car czar Steven Rattner that describes how the White House orchestrated an exclusive background interview with him and a Times reporter, and was rewarded with an article showing President Barack Obama “just as the White House had hoped.”

Such extreme and contradictory views of the Times – that it is both poorly-sourced and wrongly-informed as well as a spun lapdog tamed by special access – are one consequence of the complex relationship the nation‘s most important newspaper has with a White House famous for running a ruthlessly tight media ship.

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