Nil nisi bonum
When Gore Vidal died a couple of days ago, he was nearly 87 years old, and so his demise could not have caught the NYT entirely by surprise. Yet that bible of the bien-pensant, which was somehow once regarded as "the Newspaper of Record," managed to get quite a few of the facts in Vidal's obituary wrong. One of these falls into the TMI category, but I suppose if you're going to include that sort of thing in a family newspaper, you may as well be accurate. The correction below :
"All the news that's fit to print," while never really true, has certainly acquired a broader meaning.
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