I’ve been waiting for the right moment to link to one of Mediacrity’s hilarious posts in his “Empty Suit” series on New York Times public editor Byron Calame. I think that moment has come.

Media Blog readers might remember two weeks ago when we spotted this outlandish correction in the Times, written after a Times editor got caught making stuff up and putting it in a contributor’s op-ed. The screw-up angered readers and bloggers of all political stripes, who wondered why the Times would be inserting entire statements into guest op-eds. Worse yet, whereas the original op-ed was critical but respectful of the Bush administration, the phony content had a cynical and clich