Hey, NY Times, you ignored your responsibility as a major player in creating the smear job you discuss in Looking at America (see below) and you chose the last day of the year to try and wipe off the smudge… 

Is it your opinion you have excelled in your job during the past seven years?  If you received insufficient answers to your questions and opposing views from your editorials, did you dig deeper, did you pursue?  And if so did you report what you discovered?  Or tuck the info away, say, for a reporter’s book, where a small chunk will be revealed, way too late and for a profit?  Is this the reporting of the future? 

The reason your newspaper is losing readers is because you are not doing your job.  It has nothing to do with the internet or television.  Right now, the public is firing you.  If you want us to hire you again, start doing your job.   

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