On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bill Keller was quoted as saying:
> "I don't see this as an apology. I see this as an explanation. It's
> not a note that's going to satisfy our most bloodthirsty critics."
And of course it doesn't -- it doesn't even satisfy its mild critics. But to be fair to the Grey Lady, Jack Schaeffer makes a good point in his piece on the "mini-culpa:"
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101294/
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Granted, the note is months late in arriving.
Granted, it doesn't take a lot of courage to dump on the Iraqi
defectors a couple of days after the U.S. government gives former
exile in chief Ahmad Chalabi the big kiss-off. And granted, it is not
the note I would have written. But as a demonstration of
accountability, it exceeds what most of the rest of the errant press
corps has done by a factor of 100.
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Michael