New York Times for shoddy journalism and assassination of character against John McCain alluding to an affair of Sen. John McCain and Vicki Iseman.

For the New York Times to print a major article that has such tremendous capacity to affect on our electoral process not to mention John McCain's character, his wife and their children not to mention American citizens whose judgment and decision may be affected at the polls.

At college I was taught in my journalism class that you never allow an article to go to press without having two confirmed sources who are willing to go on record as sources, in addition to physical proof i.e. photos receipt where one room was shared by both parties or if one of the parties involved admits to an affair, in this situation the New York Times had neither.

Their source was two 'nameless' disgruntled former employees nothing more and their accusations were so broad and vague one wonders if they weighed the probative value vs. the value of hurting the character and perhaps reputation of an innocent party or parties.

It may seem odd to my colleagues that I as a Progressive Democrat would defend the Conservative Republican Sen. John McCain, its simple when I see a wrong being committed I have to speak out and correct it, and by all that I was taught in my journalism classes, and by my professor and proper journalistic ethics then I had to defend Sen. John McCain; besides its not all that difficult to do since even though I disagree with many of his policies I admire and respect his character and his Naval Service and the years he suffered terribly as a POW in Vietnam.