On Hendrik Hertzberg's blog yesterday, he took on Zev Chavets' lengthy profile of Rush Limbaugh in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.  Chavets was given unprecedented access to Limbaugh, documenting previously unpublished details about the talk radio star's lavish lifestyle.  But there is something missing according to Hertzberg:

Limbaugh is an important person because he broadcasts hard-right political commentary—more precisely, propaganda—to an enormous national audience for three hours a day, five days a week. And about this Chavets and the Times tell us nothing.

It is a tart, pertinent remind of how access can alter ever critical objectivity.