When is a single-source story good enough for The New York Times?
When it appears to confirm a 40-year-old Democratic conspiracy theory.
Peter Baker, the Times’ chief White House correspondent, published Saturday a bombshell report, “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-Election.”
It was indeed merely one man’s story.
An 85-year-old Democrat, Ben Barnes, claims to have personal knowledge of efforts by Ronald Reagan allies to delay the release of US hostages from Iran until after the 1980 election.
