{"id":3506,"date":"2005-07-29T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/29\/another-new-york-times-columnist-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T00:13:11","slug":"another-new-york-times-columnist-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/another-new-york-times-columnist-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Another New York Times columnist in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tKrugman colleague Nick Kristoff has to face libel charges after all, <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2123392\/\">per an Appeals Court decision<\/a> in the Hatfill case:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.T.C.F.k.: They laughed when <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2103783&#038;#hatfill4\">kf argued<\/a> that the New York Times was &#8220;massively exposed&#8221; in the Steven Hatfill libel suit against op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof. &#8230; They paid no attention when, after a lower-court federal judge threw the Hatfill suit out, <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2110461&#038;#hatfill3\">kf wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>    <em>Maybe I&#8217;m missing something, but if I were Kristof, I wouldn&#8217;t crow too loudly. Lower court decisions are made to be reversed. &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>They are not laughing now! Haftill&#8217;s suit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-Anthrax-Hatfill.html\">has been reinstated<\/a> on appeal. &#8230; P.S.: <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=FB0E17FE3A5E0C708DDDA10894DA404482&#038;n=Top%252fOpinion%252fEditorials%2520and%2520Op%252dEd%252fOp%252dEd%252fColumnists%252fNicholas%2520D%2520Kristof\">Kristof reported<\/a> that Hatfill had &#8220;failed three successive polygraph examinations&#8221; in connection with the anthrax mailings of 2001. How could that, if it isn&#8217;t true, not be libelous? &#8230; 11:23 P.M.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We predict Kristoff and the Times will lose big. Kristoff&#8217;s slander of Hatfill was mean-spirited, beyond the pale, and generally bogus.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman colleague Nick Kristoff has to face libel charges after all, per an Appeals Court decision in the Hatfill case: A.T.C.F.k.: They laughed when kf argued that the New York Times was &#8220;massively exposed&#8221; in the Steven Hatfill libel suit against op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof. &#8230; They paid no attention when, after a lower-court federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/another-new-york-times-columnist-in-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another New York Times columnist in trouble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Uy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}