NYT Ombudsman: I Think MoveOn.org Ad Violated Times's Own Written Standards

Writes NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt in an op-ed Sunday, “The ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that says, ‘We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature.'” Also mentioned in the piece is that fact that “MoveOn.org paid what is known in the newspaper industry as a standby rate of $64,575 that it should not have received under Times policies. The group should have paid $142,083.”