KURTZ’S MUST-READ

It’s the best account yet of the assisted suicide at Sixty Minutes. (Dobbs and GRimadli also reported.) I’m still struck by how better the Washngton Post’s coverage is of this story than the NYT’s. The NYT clearly doesn’t want this story to play out; their old media instincts are still in force; their commentary has been lazy and lame. Stunning quote: when the White House didn’t immediately question the veracity of the documents after a few hours, 60 Minutes exec, Josh Howard, who didn’t know the source before the piece went on the air, confessed, “we completely abandoned the process of authenticating the documents.” I repeat: Rather must go. He’s fast becoming the Richard Nixon of the media.