[VintageCool]

I have been upset with the NY Times for years because of their uncritical addiction to access journalism.

* They held into the Abu Ghraib story for a year to avoid influencing the 2004 election.

* They dismissed and discredited the story about DNS lookups between email servers at Trump Tower, Spectrum Health (DeVos / Erik Prince), and Alfa Bank (Russia) in 2016.

* They uncritically repeated the Barr memo about the Mueller report. That one I couldn't believe -- there had been weeks of reporting about how Bill Barr had been hired/appointed to suppress the Mueller investigation. Then Bill Barr publishes a memo a few days before the report saying that it's no big deal, and the NY Times is publishing mea culpas about how they had done wrong by reporting on Trump/Russia connections exposed by the Mueller investigation??

Instead, it seemed like the New York Times liked getting scoops from their sources high up in government, and they didn't want to preserve those sources by not upsetting them.

[stevenwoo]

This and the Judith Miller WMD fictions to turbocharge Iraq war justification, and Maggie Haberman's sycophancy during Trump years all add to evidence not being the liberal bastion that people believe for some reason.