(The Times publishes a photo of an activist who worked against an immigration bill opposed by conservatives. He is a retired policeman who lost his right eye in a hunting accident and a tooth on the left side of his face in a fall. Then he had a heart transplant that caused swelling so that he could no longer wear a denture or an artificial eyeball. Readers accuse the paper of deliberately focusing on a "redneck" or "riff-raff" to show contempt for opponents of the bill. The subject of the photo is bemused. The complainers were showing their own prejudices, not those of The Times)
(Three different ethical issues: Tom Friedman accepting a $75,000 speaking fee from a California state agency in violation of the paper's rules; Maureen Down accused of plagiarism; and an economics correspondent writes a memoir about how he took out subprime mortgages he couldn't repay while covering the subprime mess)
(The Times publishes a front page story repeating accusations that a respected historian deliberately distorted and omitted content from the Nixon tapes to paint a benign portrait of John Dean. The charge was old and long ago dismissed by most mainstream historians)
(The Times fails to live up to its tough policy on the use of anonymous sources. The column is informed in part by a study by Columbia University Journalism School students who concluded that the paper's use of unnamed sources had fallen by roughly half since a more stringent policy was introduced in 2004 but that there were still too many of them)
(Coverage of a major outside shareholder's effort to break the Ochs-Sulzberger family's control of The New York Times Company shows how tough it is for the newspaper to write about itself)
(The difficult issue posed when the son of the excellent Jerusalem bureau chief for the NYT joins the Israeli Defense Forces. Accompanying is a response on the Public Editor's blog by Times Executive Editor Bill Keller)
(The Times is slow off the mark to cover the right-wing sting of Acorn, a community activist group. The stingers, posing as a pimp and prostitute, secretly taped Acorn employees advising them on how to set up a brothel)