A reader points out:

Ya know, it’s sad that the NY Times considers this Blair punk’s plagiarism the worst thing that’s happened to NY Times since it came up. I seem to remember “In the gulag, there is also…” and the objectivly evil Walter Duranty–lied about the crimes of the USSR when it was only 20 or 30 years in. When you think about it, if everyone had been Perfectly Clear on what was going on in the USSR, we may have made some different policy decisions–maybe the USSR wouldn’t have kept entire regions of the world prisoner for 70 years.