NY Times Eats Sock

“Sock Puppet Bites Man”? I had to rub my tired eyes at midnight when I came upon that lame headline on the last of yesterday’s editorials in the NY Times. Was the overblown Lee Siegel contretemps really weighty enough for the august editorial board to weigh in on?
Then I got to this sentence, which really woke me up:
Sock puppetry may be rampant online, but journalists writing for their employer’s Web site have a greater responsibility to be honest than run-of-the-mill posters.
“Run-of-the-mill posters,” unite! This Lee has the same “responsibility to be honest” as that Lee. The Mainstream Media still look down on bloggers as the great unwashed. But the Times has had its dicey moments too. Who was that fellow Jayson Blair again?