NEW YORK TIMES- BASHING is becoming an international sport, as Barbara Amiel takes the Times to task over its misrepresentation of Henry Kissinger’s views and its distortions on a wide variety of other subjects. Meanwhile, Mickey Kaus asks if the Times would be facing these embarrassments had Bill Keller gotten the top job in place of the embattled Howell Raines, while TAPPED does a little Times-bashing of its own — all while protesting, Marc Antony-like, its love for the paper.

Well, at least Raines has people talking about the Times!