Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?

The only reason to have a New York Times is if it exercises quality control over those it prints in its pages. And it doesn't. Judy Miller ethics rule.

The big lie from Abelson and Harris's story about the Dartmouth study of health care costs comes in paragraph 6:

Data Used to Justify Health Savings Effort Is Sometimes Shaky: (6) For all anyone knows, patients could be dying in far greater numbers in hospitals in the beige regions than hospitals in the brown ones, and Dartmouth’s maps...