The Legacy Media And Torture, Ctd

Marcy Wheeler finds that the NYT's defense doesn't hold up:

Three years passed before the NYT started balancing those
waterboarding with quotations calling it torture in less than half
their articles discussing the practice.

So what explains the delay?...It'spossible the formal admission of waterboardingto Congress by Michael Hayden on February 5, 2008 changed things. It'salso possible that John McCain's presidential campaign–heating up in2007–offered a reason to consider calling...