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The New York Times's new Public Editor on the Downing Street Memo:

My checks find no basis for Ms. Lowe's concern about censorship or undue outside pressures. Rather, it appears that key editors simply were slow to recognize that the minutes of a high-powered meeting on a life-and-death issue — their authenticity undisputed — probably needed to be assessed in some fashion for readers.

Ah, the Times.

See also this recent dispatch from the alternate universe that brought us the saddest April Fool's joke.