Morning Must-Read: Ryan Chittum on The New York Times Behaving Very Badly Indeed

Ryan Chittum: The NYT spreads AEI’s Big Lie of the Crisis:

What in the world is The New York Times doing running an op-ed from AEI’s Peter Wallison that perpetuates his thoroughly discredited argument about what caused the housing crisis? It’s the high/middlebrow equivalent of forwarding on to millions of people a chain email your crazy uncle sent—without even clicking over to Snopes.com. The Times lends Wallison the most valuable space in journalism… lets him claim yet again that government policies caused the housing crisis—a line so blatantly false that Barry Ritholtz dubbed it the Big Lie of the Crisis. And that’s seriously problematic…