VETERAN COLUMNIST-REPORTER IN ALBANY TAKES A SHOT AT THE NY TIMES

In a column in the New York Post, Fred Dicker asks what the Times is trying to do

Veteran columnist and Albany reporter Fred Dicker has some interesting observations about the Capitol rumor mill and the New York Times.  In his column in the New York Post, the highly respected Albany hand takes the New York Times to task and notes that the Times "story"--if there is one---has caused an uproar in Albany.  Here is part of what Dicker has to say....

By sitting on their supposed blockbuster of a story for nearly two weeks, the Times' scribes have created a paralytic frenzy in state government the likes of which have never been seen before.

Perhaps they're bucking for the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for buzz.

It was left to Paterson's newest chief political ally to offer a, uh, reasoned defense of the embattled Democratic governor, one free of conspiracy theories and bogus enemies.

"If The New York Times is working on or has a story, then you should confirm or print it," Rick Lazio, the all-but-certain Republican candidate for governor, demanded of Times Executive Editor Bill Keller.

"If you do not, then you have a moral obligation to stop the drama and the psychological warfare on Gov. Paterson."