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The New York Times’ political coverage is bad, folks. https://twitter.com/ichotiner/status/1319644757325328385
Not just in the article — she’s the lede! https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1319637564295348225
The NYT should retract that article. But it should also publicly explain the process by which it came to portray a GOP campaign consultant and a GOP official as regular swing voters.
How did @elainaplott make contact with them? Did a GOP flak set it up? Did she research them?
How did @elainaplott make contact with them? Did a GOP flak set it up? Did she research them?
Did any editor involved in the process ask how she found these people? Or if she had asked if they had worked in politics? Or if she had independently researched their backgrounds before building a story around them?
These are not people to whom the article “referred incompletely,” btw. These are people who *never should have been in the article in the first place.*
The premise of the article is “voters sticking by Trump.” GOP operatives are not valid examples of this, even if identified!
The premise of the article is “voters sticking by Trump.” GOP operatives are not valid examples of this, even if identified!
How did she come to interview those people? Did any editors ask her that, or what she did to check their backgrounds? Is that standard practice? You claim to be explaining how this happened, but you haven’t actually explained anything. https://twitter.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1319737009288732675
Thanks. How did you come to talk to and quote those two people? Did anyone put you in touch with them? Did you stumble across them on a street corner at random? https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1319739477485649920
