Roger L. Simon smack the Times, again:

The New York Times has a sensational story today (Sunday) implying that American troops are almost as bad as Saddam’s fascist thugs. Evidently, we’ve got some ten thousand Iraqi’s under key and a number of family members are complaining about their whereabouts. Also 17 of our soldiers have been suspended for mistreating prisoners.

Never mind that the article employs that journalistically dubious anecdotal technique of supposedly random, but usually carefully selected, quotes. Or that it is written in a “novelistic” style that I find questionable on the front page of a newspaper. Maybe because I’m a novelist I am too easily upset by these stylistic flourishes in reputedly hard news and find them eerily reminiscent of Jayson Blair.

Indeed.