This is an interesting poke at the NYT from it's lesser cousin, The New York Post, but the NYP makes a valid point. The NYT almost devotional coverage of everything Obama and administration does, and it's ferocious attacks on anyone who disagrees, has not only created a situation where the NYT has lost it's journalistic authority to be a watchdog of the body politic, it's led the administration to believe they can do anything without criticism.
And now it's all falling apart. From the NYP - "Not that the president would admit any of that, of course, but the Obama Protection Racket, led by the Times, cuts both ways. It is a key reason he has defied political gravity for so long, and also why he is now in deep trouble. As watchdogs became lapdogs, the presidential bubble grew impenetrable, isolating him from ordinary Americans and the trickle-down pain of his policies.
From the broadcast networks to MSNBC and most large papers, Obama got the benefit of every doubt. The double standards were a daily disgrace so routine, they mostly provoked a shrug instead of outrage.
The ObamaCare debacle is the exception that proves the rule. Wall-to-wall complaints are forcing the media to report that the law’s Web site is a lemon and that its rules are causing millions of people to lose insurance plans they liked."
New York Times
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