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NY Times credibility watch

DOWD'S DECEPTION: Spinsanity picks up on this blog's early criticism of Maureen Dowd's deceptive attempt to say that president Bush declared that al Qaeda was "not a problem any more." He never said that. But Bill Press, Paul Begala, and other liberals on CNN repeated the canard. The New York Times has not run a correction. Dowd has not run a correction in her column either. Even after Jayson Blair, they're shameless. I'd say the real test of whether Raines is serious about improving the quality of the Times is whether the paper corrects Dowd's lie. We're still waiting.