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Meet the new public figleaf -- er, I mean "public editor": Clark Hoyt, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor with Knight-Ridder. The Times confesses,

In the prelude to the Iraq war and the early days of the war, Knight-Ridder stood apart from most of the mainstream press in consistently raising doubts about the Bush administration?s claims, later discredited, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, said that record contributed to his selection of Mr. Hoyt.

Sounds like this man has tiny feet, which will fit very well into the footsteps of his predecessors in this useless job.

Update... Here's Hoyt a year ago giving a lecture -- that's him behind the podium from which the sign has fallen to the floor (good to see he's in control of the details). He said at that lecture,

Hoyt faulted the Bush administration for curtailing access and punishing journalists who dare question spoon-fed conservative talking points...

?Not since Vietnam and Watergate have relations between the government and the press been as strained as they are now,? he added. ?Powerful forces are very much against our getting the truth and printing it.?

...?People at the top of the administration were of one mind,? he said. ?We had to dig elsewhere to find information.?

He'll fit right in at the Times, won't he?

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