The Gasoline Bill Keller Threw on the WSJ vs. NYT FireS  There
is history behind the current WSJ/NYT spat: The New York
Observer today has found a 2008 letter Times Executive Editor
Bill Keller wrote in an effort, basically, to make a Journal
reporter lose an important award.  This would be the letter that
WSJ editor Robert Thomson recently accused Bill Keller of
writing "to a prize committee casting aspersions on Journal
journalists and journalism."  Here's the story: Journal reporter
Shai Oster won a George Polk Award for a report on problems with
the construction of China's Three Gorges Dam (For those who
don't know, the George Polk Award is a fancy award given for
political reporting. Joan Didion has one—look it up). In a press
release announcing the award, the committee implied that Oster's
article basically forced the Chinese government to admit that
the Dam would displace 4 million people.  Bill Keller was all:
Nu, uh it didn't! His letter essentially says: "The Journal
article was not actually as impo