This post is for inviting @El_Famous_Burrito to post their NYT takes in this purpose-built thread. I’ll link to some recent posts from other threads that would fit well here.
It’s even worse than this. Sometimes they don’t even have to fish around.
Some reporters from the supposedly liberal media rely on Republican operatives to recruit man-on-the-street sources.
The folks handed over are, of course, Republican operatives themselves, playing a fictional role. That role is to lie about their background (“I’m a Democrat/liberal/ex-Biden supporter/undecided/moderate”) and then shit on the Democrats/liberals/Biden. The reporter then gets to write yet another “disaffec…
Never forget:
The New York Times has been caught, once again, passing off Republican operatives as “regular” Republican voters…
It raises serious questions about whether Times editors and reporters, rather than actually trying to determine how voters feel, are setting out to find people to mouth the words they need for predetermined story lines…
This isn’t the first Times story of this kind to feature ringers.
And so on and so on.
While this Salon article is from four years ago, I t…