In that case, the Supreme Court upheld the paper's position.
Moreover, Mr. Gentili said, this is the second consecutive year in which minor parties were not included on the machines and pointed out that the State Supreme Court and the court's Appellate Division had upheld the paper ballot arrangement.
Roger A. Pielke, Jr., whose focus at the University of Colorado is climate in the context of political science, echoed that question, urging the new team at the journal to initiate retraction proceedings, adding: If the charges of "error" and "false claims" are upheld the paper should certainly be retracted.
But upholding the paper's tradition of great journalism is costly.
Yes, Times leadership must uphold the paper's standards, credibility and higher purpose, but simply maintaining the status quo isn't nearly enough these days.
The family that owned the paper, the Bancrofts, ran in circles, and then accepted Mr. Murdoch's money and his promises to uphold the paper's traditions and just plain ran.
Although no one, perhaps not even the founder of Amazon himself, is sure why Jeff Bezos paid $250m for the Washington Post, he does not seem to have done so just to pursue his industry's narrow interests: he has pledged to uphold the paper's tradition of fearless journalism.
The Post quoted Sivakumar as saying that the new ownership was "fully committed to upholding the paper's editorial principles/independence without infringing any relevant laws". The journalists who stayed on published another front-page article Tuesday about turmoil at the newspaper.
But, while Ipso upheld the complaint it investigated, the paper was spared having to print notice of the adjudication on its front page.
That was crucial in the 1971 "Pentagon Papers" case, when a Supreme Court decision upheld the New York Times's right to publish secret material.
