NYT still has the power to alter the facts of the very story on which it is reporting.
Long gone are the days when major newspapers and network news operations had the power, through their selection of stories, to set the political agenda. That’s a change for the better, to be sure. But the best of the ancien media regime are still peerless in their ability to compel change in the actions of the people and institutions they report on. Take for example an article in the business section of Sunday’s New York