More reasons the NY Times is not fit to put on the bottom of the bird cage

During my time as an intelligence officer I would routinely read the propaganda of my country's enemies. Pravda, Izvestia, The People's Daily and of course, The NY Times. Now during my Sunday morning routine of looking through the paper and online stuff I got this from the iditorial page of The Times. Even for them this is a brazen piece of hypocrisy for the paper of record.

Joe Flom - NYTimes.com
...Mr. Flom, who died last week at the age of 87, believed fiercely that merit, not your family name or your pedigree, mattered most. That was not the world he entered when he finished Harvard Law School in 1948. He was rejected by Manhattan firms where he hoped to work because he was Jewish or, as he put it, “not an obvious fit.” He finally was hired as the first associate at a tiny firm founded that year by three men passed over for partnership at white-shoe firms.

OK...NY Times, is there a Kennedy you never endorsed, campaigned for, wrote puff piece stories about, declined to write stories showing their short comings or questioning their qualifications for high office. Did you think maybe you should ask "Is Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg who had no real accomplishments of her own qualified for the Senate?" Or maybe inquired "Is Mrs Bill Clinton, who has no ties to this state, fit to represent New York as it's junior senator...or maybe it is just we're pushing her because her ideology that fits ours" Perhaps they should look inward...the current publisher is Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, son of the late Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger. "Pinch" inherited the paper from "Punch"...and the paper is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hey Pinch, how's the meritocracy working out for you?

...The transformation of corporate lawyering exposed it for what it had pretended not to be: a business...

Kinda like the newspaper business? Oh that's right, you don't worry about money do you?

“We’ve got to show the bastards that you don’t have to be born into it,” Mr. Flom exhorted colleagues. That’s what he did.

Thank God the mainstream media actually has competition now. The rag of Manhatten must be happy to have it...brings our the best in all of us.

I've never heard of Mr. Flom before this morning over my coffee and I can only wish the best for his family at this time and that he rest in peace. However to see the NY Times push this piece covering merit over "who you know" is beyond the pale, even for the paper of record.