Hayes writes below on Times editor Doug Jehl’s explanation for ignoring the Freeman controversy until after the appointment had been withdrawn. It’s a lousy explanation, but Calderone gets an even more ridiculous answer from Dean Baquet, the Times Washington bureau chief:
The bureau chief argued that Freeman wasn’t a “high enough appointment to go nuts over in a big way,” and offered up a challenge: “Go Google his predecessor and see how much coverage he got.”
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