Opposition research.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

In early August, four days before the Colorado primary, the New York Times published a front-page story that accused Michael Bennet, the former superintendent of Denver public schools and the incumbent candidate for U.S. Senate, of having made exotic investments that threatened the school system's finances. On the following Monday, the Times' correction box noted that deannie Kaplan, the author's original source, who was twice directly quoted in the story, was in fact a backer of Bennet's opponent. Of course the correction ran not on page 1 but on page 3, and without the multicolumn headline that had run over the original. The most disturbing fact here is that Gretchen Morgenson, the story's author, and its editor had both been told about Kaplan's opposition to...