# Anonymous = Coward? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-coward/820882 "2018-09-06T15:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 66
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-coward/820882/66 "2018-09-07T12:37:12Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > If you feel this way I would say that you deeply DEEPLY misunderstand what journalism is. You feeling this way says much more about your limited understanding than it does about reality. This sounds like anti-vaxer, flat earth, evolution denial stuff. > > Yes, it is an OP-Ed, but this would not have appeared in print without the involvement of all levels of leadership at NYT, including their board, and many lawyers. The notion that they “faked it”, if ever even hinted at, would basically put them out of business. I can’t help but note that there’s another thread going on right now where a poster mused that _“I feel it could be no one at all. The NYT is no friend of Deej, and running this piece is having what could be considered the designed effect of causing chaos and suspicion and the undermining of trust in the WH”_ — and another poster replied, in a measured manner, > [@Taking Bets: Who is the 'insider' who wrote the NYT Opinion Piece?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-bets-who-is-the-insider-who-wrote-the-nyt-opinion-piece/820852/98): > > I don’t think that’s impossible, but I think that the NYT values their perceived integrity too much to risk this. I think it’s more likely that it is a screw job, perhaps at the secret behest of the administration, to discredit the LSM when it is revealed to be a “fake”, but even that is less likely than someone actually in the CFSG’s administration. > > In my opinion, if the letter is revealed to not be all it seems, it’s most likely the result of the NYT stretching the definition of high ranking official. So, first: can you do me a favor and opine there about the limited understanding of those other posters? I of course think you’re wrong to be so dismissive; but since you’re already writing me off, I’d just like to up the odds of you hearing it from multiple folks, is all. But, second: do you think there’s _any_ point where the danger posed by a president like Trump could cause key folks at the NYT to say, “screw it, why not slap together an op-ed piece?” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-coward/820882)._