New York Times mistakes itself for the Starship Enterprise

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has gotten around to telling us that just before last November's election, The New York Times killed a story on the mysterious hump on George W. Bush's back, because the story might have influenced the election.

Obviously someone there at the Times is a Star Trek fan, so much so that they believe the United Federation of Planet's noninterference directive (the one that gets violated in every episode of every version of the series) applies to journalists.

Of course, the clearly visible but mysterious hump was reported here at the time, with photos, for all the good it did, as the story ended up lost in space.