Sort of, anyway:
I don’t share Posner’s regard for the New York Times news operation. On the contrary: I think Times reporters and editors have been responsible for more misinformation than any other news outlet over the last 40 years. But it means something that the paper’s head news guy says he wouldn’t have run the Kristof smear.
I didn’t track down the podcast, and I don’t know whether there was any follow-up on Kahn’s rather weaselly statement that “we wouldn’t have done that exact piece.” For now, we will have to leave it there.
One point: Posner says the column and Kahn’s comments were a year apart. That was a lapse on his part; they weren’t.
