About the NYT... after finding out that they spiked Lictblau and Risen's 2003 story on NSA surveillance until after the 2004 election, essentially at the Bush admin's behest, one has to wonder about the independence of their journalists.

Another independent example: Ken Dilanian is at NBC now, but google for articles about him running articles by the CIA before filing them.

And now I sound like a conspiracy monger.