When the New York Times’s top editor, Bill Keller, steps down in a few months, he will be replaced by Jill Abramson, a New York Times true-believer. Literally, according to the NYT’s profile:
Ms. Abramson said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like “ascending to Valhalla.”
“In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,” she said. “If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”
Interestingly, you won’t find that quote if you read the article now. It’s been scrubbed. Does absolute truth need to be scrubbed?
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