The
New York Times continues
trying to close the book on last week's disaster of a story with an editor's note. It begins:
The Times’s coverage last week of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a personal email account as secretary of state involved several corrections and changes that may have left readers with a confused picture.
Yes,
a confused picture. That's it.
Yet even the editor's note manages to be a little misleading, since a big part of the problem with the original story was that it focused overwhelmingly on Hillary Clinton when the real story, when you got through all the corrections, was less about Clinton than it was billed as being and more about the State Department's recent handling of the process of making those emails public (or not). Start to finish, this episode has been an indictment of source-based journalism and the Times' political reporting.