Annals of the mainstream media

It’s still number five on Technorati at 5:15PM PDT Tuesday, having been as high as one for a good deal of the last couple of days, but a search for the name “Adnan Hajj” still yields “no results” on the New York Times website. I guess the story of Reuters running phony war photographs is not news to the paper of record. But as Jean Renoir famously said, “Everybody has his reasons.” [I bet you were thinking of saying it’s one branch of the Mafia covering for another.-ed. Moi?]