NY Times' Seelye, public editor give conflicting reports on whether Times promised to run Giuliani ad on specific day

SUMMARY: In a New York Times article, Katharine Q. Seelye reported that MoveOn.org paid the Times $77,508 for its controversial General Betray Us" ad, and that Rudy Giuliani's campaign said it "would not pay the difference" between the "standby" rate and its regular rate for an ad it ran in response to MoveOn.org's because the Times "did not guarantee when it would run" Giuliani's ad. But three days earlier, Times public editor Clark Hoyt had written that Giuliani "demanded space in the following Friday's Times to answer MoveOn.org" and "got it." Further, Seelye herself had previously reported Giuliani's intention to request space in that day's paper for a rebuttal ad.

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