The New York Times acknowledged Friday that one of its staff photographers violatedjournalism ethics and company policy when he had a child pose for a news photograph that was published last month in some of the paper's editions. The controversial picture shows a 6-year-old boy aiming a toy pistol alongside a sign reading "Arabian Foods" outside a store in Lackawanna, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo. The photo accompanied a Sept. 20 article about a group of Arab-Americans who have been accused of operating a cell of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
That damn Howell Raines.