General Theory of Media Relativity

Glenn Reynolds links to this Just One Minute post about what social security reform means FOR YOU. Actually it's not about that at all. It's about what social security reform means to people WHO HATE THE NEW YORK TIMES. The sleight-of-hand about the leaked Wehner memo is amusing -- what the Administration "privately" admits is NOT what it admits, period. Never doubt the importance of an adverb!

And it's funny how the complaint that "The Times editors continue to follow the Social Security debate; unfortunately, they fail to follow their own newspaper's reporting" so closely resembles the one that Eric Alterman makes over and over again (in "The Sound and The Fury" and elsewhere) about the Wall Street Journal. Please, everyone -- we MUST be nonpartisan out here in the blogosphere.