times white house reporter david sanger has a direct line to rice. she gives him the lead on stories; the times then carries her spin ... "this white house has decided what messages will go to which audiences and which media will carry it," says a white house correspondent for a major daily. "it would be foolish not to think the new york times is not part of that media strategy. it is the daily bible for the foreign-policy establishment and the shortest path to that readership."

- harry jaffe, the new york times and the nsc: good reporting by david sanger or "the pravda tendency" of the times?, washingtonian october 24, 2003