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Tuesday, January 07, 2025
The message was surprising. David Enrich, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, was responding to a question I had sent him about his newspaper's 2018 coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. The Times had disgraced itself with its abysmal "reporting" on Kavanaugh. Enrich responded in a way that surprised me: "I've spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage, and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time." Wait ... what? Journalists never admit when they're wrong. About anything. Ever. Yet the substance and tone of his message suggested that of a contrite person who might believe he made mistakes. In my experience, this was an extraordinary statement coming from a reporter at the country's leading newspaper |
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