I think they're saying that an honest man doesn't cover for anything, so there were no honest people left in Sodom. They couldn't even find 10 honest people. S

I think they're saying that an honest man doesn't cover for anything, so there were no honest people left in Sodom. They couldn't even find 10 honest people. Similarly, an honest journalist doesn't cover for their newspaper, so there are no honest journalists left in the NYT. It's a flawed premise when you look back on the past 100 years where the concept of 'honesty' really meant 'loyalty to your government'. Hitler, Stalin, McCarthy, Nixon...