Tea Time At The NYTimes

Andrew Ferguson /Weekly Standard takes a skeptical look at the New York Times report that included lengthy coverage of the Sandpoint Tea Party movement: “These strange-thinking Americans, loosely roped together as the Tea Party movement, sent David Barstow on his most recent investigation. His assignment lasted for five uninterrupted months and bore literary fruit, with a 4,500-word front-page story on February 16. “Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right,” the headline read—aptly enough, for a premonitory suggestion of bombs going off just over the horizon rumbled through Barstow’s story. To the astute Times reader lingering with the paper over breakfast, the hints were unmistakable. There was the dateline, for one thing: Sandpoint, Idaho.” More here . (Photo/ Pacific Northwest Inlander : David Letterman talks to Sandpoint Tea Party leader Pam Stout)

Question: Does the New York Times give North Idaho a fair shake?