Where Entertainment is God (continued)
On the re-editing of a news story by The New York Times—
"…in the original versions of a Times report by Jeremy W. Peters, [the new executive editor, Jill Abramson] flatly declared: 'In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion.'" —The Daily Beast
The Times this afternoon—
See also a follow-up from last June
to this morning's "lost in space" quote—
NYT quote removal sparks web buzz
"It's obvious that an editorial decision was made to 'rectify' a quote that made the Times look foolish."
Not so, Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told POLITICO. “Space was clearly a consideration.”