Elaina Plott might be quite a nice person but she didn’t make “a mistake” she made two of the same mistake in the same piece in which she presented interviews with Republican operatives as being with random voters. https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1319837151148687360

At that point if you’d like to argue mistakes happen then you need a little more than “oops my bad” from her and her editor, an apology which only came after several days of people yelling about it.

Conceptualizing the mistake as failing to contextual who the people that gave the quotes were instead of understanding that the mistake is the process that surfaces those people to give quotes is how you and up with an ingrained institutional problem. https://twitter.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1319737349262233600