Power Line - A funny thing happened. . .: "Yesterday Drudge linked to the New York Times story announcing the appointment of Jill Abramson to succeed Bill Keller as the top dog at the Times. I read the story and was amused by Abramson's expression of delight: 'In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.'Perfect. The NYeT is a parody of itself.
That is an incredibly rich quote. The Times serves as the perfect stand-in for liberalism, not just supposed journalistic excellence. It is a substitute religion that comes in several forms. (Over at NRO, Jay Nordlinger commented briefly on the quote.)
A funny thing happened on the way to shul, as we say in Yiddish. The Times has scrubbed the quote from the story."
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