Historical Fallacy in the NYT

Glenn Reynolds:

HOW CAN WE TRUST THEIR JUDGMENT ON WHAT TO PUBLISH, when they can't even figure out what side we're on?  The NYT writes:

In 1985, The Times reported that a Marine colonel in the White House was overseeing the secret war against the Nicaraguan contras. The newspaper withheld the name of the colonel because the White House said printing it might endanger his life, recalled a former Times reporter, Joel Brinkley.

The Post named Oliver North the next day.

And twenty years later, they still haven't figured out that the war was against the Sandinistas, and that the contras were on our side.  Wake up and smell the coffee, guys!