The Times Ombudsman blasts the NYT for its McCain story. The New Republic (TNR) has fallen silent.
This is the same TNR who reportedly were giving comfort to the reporters who wanted their judgment to trump that of the editors by offering to make The Times itself the story.
[If I'm wrong, let me know, but what I've seen of substance is something they appear to have had to go outside their ranks to get, a non-vigorous defense of 'the story' by E.J. Dionne, Jr. ...]