Now will the god of bad things please leave journalism alone for a while?
Sometimes, Maureen, bad things happen to people who do bad things.
It was a bad thing when kneepadding Times "journalists" served as cut-outs for the winger operatives who tried to bring Clinton down (in the impeachment saga) and democracy down (in Florida) .
And bad things should happen to "journalists" who do that, and the editors that enabled them. Sulzberger's got some housecleaning to do (let's start with Jeff Gerth!) and maybe when that's done, the god of bad things will let up a little.