May 17, 2004

Calling Greg Packer. "An Editor's Note reveals the dirty little secret about where the New York Times finds those ordinary citizens sprinkled throughout public policy pieces to complain in homespun fashion about the dire effect of this budget cut or that government initiative: they are handed to the Times on a platter by ([leftist]) advocacy groups .. two of its non-random surveyees on a Medicare drug story had actually also appeared in a video for an advocacy group, Families USA .. ". MORE Mickey Kaus. Posted by Greg Ransom