The national section of today's New York Times carries a news article about the fact that the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, now says he was wrong to have supported a pardon for Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader.
Mr. Foxman spoke to reporters about this yesterday, the Times reports. But Mr. Foxman also issued a press release about it on Monday, March 19. That press release includes the same quote that today's Times article attributes to Mr. Foxman: "I began to question whether a person's good deeds should overshadow other aspects of his behavior." National Review Online reported Mr. Foxman's flip-flop on March 20; readers of the New York Times had to wait four more days until the Times waddled in with the news.