Culture of Corruption

Let's see what we have here:

• An "ethics" columnist who doesn't see anything wrong about donating to MoveOn.org; claiming the organization is "non-partisan".
• An economics columnist who can't manage his own finances.
• A past her prime opinion columnist copying and pasting another's work and passing it off as her own. And it's not like this was the first time, either.
  
• An ombudsman who covers for the paper with a whitewash of an investigation regarding the spiking of a negative report on then candidate Obama's fundraising efforts.
  

The media columnist for The Times thinks the paper has the financial wherewithal to be around until 2011.

Perhaps.

But the rot is already setting in.