NYTimes, WashPost: "Rather Not Opine"

Another day, another "no comment" on the editorial pages of the New York Times and Washington Post on in the Thornburgh report on the whole messy Rathergate affair. It looks like these very opinionated folks have decided not to share their opinion on this matter.

How can that be?

Do they have no opinion? Clearly, that can't be the case. It presents an opportunity to opine on the differences between print and broadcast; on brilliant [?] careers tarnished, on media bias and the lack, appearance or undeniability thereof, or even the TexasANG affair.

Is the whole matter beneath them? Nope. Bob Woodward has admitted that he and Carl Bernstein made a similar, but lesser, mistake in their Watergate reporting. And what is the entire Jayson Blair scandal if not a case of bias in favor of affirmative action? In actuality, both papers hear almost daily that they are guilty of liberal bias.

Perhaps they can't figure out what they can say about Rather and CBS that doesn't also involve saying it about themselves. Perhaps there are drafts laying around their ivory towers that everyone agrees are just too thin, to unbelievable, to actually publish.