New York Times Ombudsman Weighs Handling of Nonprofit Article

The public editor of The New York Times discusses charges that the newspaper held back last fall on reporting about some aspects of Acorn’s voter-registration efforts because it was too politically charged to publish close to an election. The editor, Clark Hoyt, says he does not think the newspaper held back on reporting because of any political bias, as several blog writers have charged.

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