Keeping Them Honest

Hilzoy goes after the WaPo and its ombudsman:

All those people who supposedly fact-checked [George] Will’s article as part of the Post’s "multi-layer editing process" — "people [George Will] personally employs, as well as two editors at the Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicates Will; our op-ed page editor; and two copy editors" — should be fired, either for not doing their job or for doing it utterly incompetently.

Read it all. It’s what the blogosphere exists for. Will the WaPo correct? For that matter, will TNR correct their factually inaccurate statement about Reagan? So far, the error remains uncorrected on TNR’s website. That’s a lower standard for accountability than most blogs.