This isn't journalism. It's a letter about journalism. So I will comment on the issue. I want to know if a journalist is actively engaged in pushing a position be that Worthington or Gordon. I believe that off-hand opinions about Bush's economy belong on the opinion page. Facts such as a review of the economic data belong in a news article. I also believe that this letter raises a good point but believe that it would be more effective if it were more even handed.

Perhaps I have unfairly under-rated the article, for it's quite short. It would achieve more with on overview of major newspapers that have embraced the Bush administration's every step and stumble, but have never owned up to the errors of their ways. In addition, The N.Y. Times hired William Kristol, and the L.A. Times hired Jonah Goldberg as Op Ed stars, both dead-wrong-all-the- time Bush apologists from 2000 on. There are also examples of liberals or even--oh, no!--moderates who were demoted and fired for being correct about this administrations follies. Anyone suspect news bias in this?

The public letter advocates for the New York Times journalism to use equal standards for authors who are pro-war as they use for authors who oppose torture prisons; for pro-unitary executive and anti-totalitarianists. It touches a key fault in much of current big corporate media, though it is addressed in this case to the Times.

Important attempt to show actual mistakes and bias of the paper of record. The creditability of the NYtimes should remain in question, especially in light of the criminal neglect of their coverage of alleged WMD, foisted off by the Bush government and repeated as truths repeatedly in the pages and coverage by the NYtimes. Any common law reading of gitmo comes to the conclusion that it is illegal.

This opinion from an advocacy group his little content. The authors would have been more credible if they had noted that the Times excludes reporters with pro-life views from covering issues relating to abortion or assisted suicide, even if their reporting has no discernable bias in it. In other words, if they had put substance into the letter it would have had some journalistic content.

Interesting format.

FAIR is a nonpartisan organization; even so, it is disturbing to see that its standards of accuracy are in this instance higher than those of the New York Times, which clearly regards a gross imbalance in its treatment of different cases as not constituting in itself a misrepresentation of the truth.