Last night, the New York Times reported on Iowa Congressman Steve King’s attempt to block the Obama administration from changing the face of the $20 bill from Andrew Jackson to the black abolitionist Harriet Tubman. At first glance, the piece reads as straightforward, workaday journalism. On closer inspection, however, it reveals a few of the paper of record’s most entrenched pathologies.

On Friday, Justin Bieber was cited for reckless driving on an LA freeway, but he maintains that it wasn't all his fault. Bieber was trying to escape from a particularly dogged paparazzo who was driving just as recklessly to snap a shot.