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Michelle Malkin
Conflict of interest stories make great front-page headlines -- except when the newspaper that revels in breaking them is itself in the middle of an ethical morass. Take The New York Times.
Jennifer 8. Lee, one of the muckraking newspaper's reporters, recently boasted on Twitter that the Paper of Record has now 'sold $2 million worth of Obama merchandise (book, commemorative editions, etc.).' The president, she noted chirpily, 'is good for the bottom line.' This lucrative media-government partnership is on proud display at the Times' online Barack Obama store, where readers can buy mugs, books and framed photos of the newspaper's political boosterism.
A press plate of the Times' Obama inauguration front page goes for $149. A 'set of Obama victory coffee mugs' sells for $24.95. And for only $1,129, you can own a signed and framed messianic photo of Obama taken by Times photographer Damon Winter -- and neutrally titled 'Shining Moment,' with the candidate in artsy silhouette as a sunburst illuminates the scenery.
It's a short leap from there to Times reporter Jeff Zeleny, who infamously asked the president in a prime-time press briefing a few weeks ago what had 'enchanted' him the most"
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