That's about right

It's rare that a newspaper story not involving Tom Cruise and his semen vessel can cause nausea. But this does...

The New York Times covers the Alito hearings with Elizabeth Bumiller and Adam Nagourney.

I think Armando sums it up pretty close to how I feel:

...the New York Times publishes three stories on the Alito hearings demonstrating that its incompetence in political reporting is now spreading to other parts of the newspaper. And indeed two of the stories are authored by the two worst reporters in the nation - Elizabeth Bumiller and Adam Nagourney. The results are not surprising - the utter lack of substance in these articles on the issues the New York Times editorialized required airing shows you that this once great paper is now not even mediocre.

I'll discuss the articles on the flip but first, a question - why in blazes did Linda Greenhouse not cover the hearings?

Now, with Steno Sue Schmidt and Deborah Orin still drawing paychecks and the Washington Times and New York Post publishing I cannot just award "worst reporter" awards to Bumiller and Nagourney.

But they are certainly in the running.