Grey Lady Hits a Grey Area

December 06, 2002

With 32 stories in three months about the Augusta National's exclusion of women, many have accused the New York Times of leading a personal crusade against the golf tournament. When the Times spiked two recent stories that disagreed with the editorial page on the matter those same critics asked whether the paper had gone too far. Bob speaks with Alex Jones, ex Times writer and current Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.


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