Columbia Journalism Review | SlateCJR advises the Times to post an editors' note on its website that answers as many of the questions about the McCain story's timing, sourcing, and wording as possible. ||
Jack Shafer: "Where there's smoke, there's sometimes fire. That the imperfect Times article doesn't expose a raging blaze isn't sufficient cause for condemning it." ||
Clint Hendler: "There's a whiff of sex, and everyone's all distracted that the paper implied what it didn't prove."
