The Rest Of The Story

One of the challenges of being a news consumer (or a political junkie in my case) is trying to decide if what you are reading is the real story or someone's made-up story.  This issue has come up in a recent (December 5, 2008) op-ed piece in The New York Times by William Ayers.  Even reading the editorial as someone who doesn't remember all the details of the 1960's, it doesn't quite ring true.  Larry Grathwohl, who was an FBI informant during those times. submitted a rebuttal letter to the Times, which was rejected.  That letter is posted at Pajamas Media.  It tells a very different story than the Times op-ed piece.  The problem is not as much with the fact that there are two sides to the story--but with the fact that the Times was unwilling to publish the other side of the story.  Read both, and draw your own conclusion.