This weekend's New York Times' public editor column was yet another doozy, covering the semi-recent news that the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief's son recently joined the IDF (before he traipses back to America to go to college). That the kid is going to great lengths to undermine his father's longstanding career is fascinating but we'll leave that for their family therapy sessions, about which: whew, good luck. Hoyt's column is unbearably dull until near the end, when he suddenly takes a side: "The Times sent a reporter overseas to provide disinterested coverage of one of the world's most intense and potentially explosive conflicts, and now his son has taken [...]