> It's not immoral or anything, just sort of crass. And odd, that they don't care that their readers now know, too. Newspapers and journalists love to talk abo

> It's not immoral or anything, just sort of crass. And odd, that they don't care that their readers now know, too. Newspapers and journalists love to talk about a free and fair press being essential to democracy. If you accept that, then political manipulation is an issue of morality. The New York Times being deceptive and not caring that anyone knows is very old news. Noam Chomsky famously measured New York Times 'column inches' about the genocide in East Timor. That was in the 1980s (?).