New York Times Death Spiral Watch: Bill Kristol Edition (May 07, 2008) - Editing Anyone (Politics)

Outsourced to Matthew Yglesias:

Editing Anyone?: Bill Kristol's column from Monday:

In a New York Times/CBS News poll in late February, Obama was defeating John McCain 50 to 38. Two months later, the Times/CBS poll had McCain and Obama tied. The poll that came out yesterday showed Obama reopening a lead over McCain — but clearly over this period a vulnerability for Obama was exposed.

As Noam Scheiber notes it's a bit curious of Kristol to have left out the precise numbers from the new poll. But what it says is that Obama hasa lead of 51 to 40 which is identical to Obama's previous lead. I'm hardly shocked to see Kristol playing some funny games, but shouldn't there be some kind of editing of the Times columnists? Surely the NYT has it within its powers to be aware of the results of its own polls and get its writers to characterize the trends accurately.

Comments

[supersaurus]

if the times paid attention to its columnists kristol wouldn't be one of them.

[Chris Brown]

I would think Yglesias would have something better to do with his time than waste it reading what Billy Kristol writes.