I hate that the NY has half-outed the whistleblower. But the NYT does a lot of stuff that makes me wonder if they have some pro-GOP agenda, underneath all their faux liberalism.
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NYT is acting like ttump agent recently. Several articles argued against impeachment and then a journalist claimed that swing voters didn’t want impeachment when those voters were actually rethug voters (the author has deleted her tweet). I wonder what NYT is up to.
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Yes, Rundy Gerbils, you will be the sandwich.
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Thanks for the very welcome pause for a laugh in the middle of head spinning due to the swift pace of revelations of dastardly conduct by Trump and his co-conspirators.
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Someone posted this link on another thread: the NYT had the Ukraine scandal story in May, but chose to be a stenographer instead. Seems relevant to what’s happened here.
“The reporter, Ken Vogel, was too wrapped up in trying to nail the story he set out cover to notice that the actions of his sources, rather than the information they were promoting, was the real story.”
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This was totally, completely, deeply irresponsible, unethical and, based on Baquet’s characteristically self-righeous, supercilious and utterly clueless apologia, yet another example of the execrable judgment that’s driven the paper’s newsroom since the 1990’s.
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Short circuit.
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That’s the real story, but to tell it the Times would have to risk alienating their sources. It’s a messy world, journalism. But the Times lost me with Judith Miller and never fully won me back. Can’t go without reading it, but…well…let’s say not with the respect the old gray lady used to command.
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They allowed themselves to be intimidated early on as they did during the Bush years. They really have a sick corporate structure if they’re that desperate to allow GOP refs to play them for such fools through their typical but not unexpected political strong-arm tactics. They have to be willing to go along to get along if they’re really that desperate, which they appear to be.
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Beyond the queasiness induced by their actions, I’m struck by what seems likely here: one person from outside the cult gets detailed to the WH temporarily, and this is what s/he finds. How bad must the reality be?
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You are so frequently, absolutely, and astonishingly right!
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I think that apartment where the Russian double agent was staying just opened up. I’m sure Ken Dilanian is right on top of it.
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Wow… he is truly deranged.
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Oh I don’t know. Remember J. Edgar Hoover and his gang of redneck g-men?
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It was snark.
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Giving the NYT’s political team an underdeserved benefit of doubt and setting aside nefarious purposes, why would the NYT publish identifying characteristics of the whistleblower? What is the news value of that other than to help the administration publicly identify them and begin their harassment campaign?
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This is not going to go away particularly since Trump is out there threatening prison and the death penalty to a whistle blower.
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I’ve steadfastly maintained, ever since Trump started his feud with the IC, that it is a mistake to piss off people who do wet work for a living and are really good at keeping it out of the public eye. Trump thought he could outwit the CIA. Turns out he can be outwitted by an inanimate object.
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Agreed. Judith Miller was an abomination and, in the sense that she badly harmed this country and its defenders for personal gain, a traitor.
I have heard that the NYT info source for exposing the whistleblower was “three unnamed sources with knowledge of his identity.” With that sloppy, careless nest of vipers around the WH, Barr’s DOJ, and the other involved departments, there is quite a list of possibilities.
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