Losing Faith in the Times

It was bad enough when the New York Times decided to charge astronomical subscription fees to read the likes of Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd, but now the paper is down-and-out dropping the ball. The Times' two-story, 5,800-word account of Judy Miller's role in the Valerie Plame affair (including Miller's own tale of her conversations with Scotter Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff) missed the deadline to be included in 100,000 copies of the paper's Sunday national edition.

Who is making such dreadful decisions at the once glorious New York Times?