Ombusdman On The Runway

by digby

This is rich. Julia catches Daniel Okrent, erstwhile “public editor” of the NY Times, being critical of the war coverage after he vociferously defended it in his column a while back:

He said poor press coverage lead to the Iraq war, because “in a time of war, editors being [sic] to wear epaulettes on their shoulder” and The Times’ were not exceptional in jumping on the bandwagon.

I think Julia’s being much to hard on poor Mr Okrent. When he was defending the media’s coverage of the war, the Iraq invasion was the all the rage. Epaulettes were the new little black dress of imperialism. Sadly, it’s now as out of date as stone washed jeans. He’s just keeping himself on all the best invitation lists for fashion week.

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