OPINION_ The New York Times’ latest hysterical, hypocritical panic

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The New York Times’ latest hysterical, hypocritical panic

By Rich Lowry
August 26, 2019 | 7:48pm | Updated



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The New York Times, an organization devoted to gathering and publishing information, doesn’t want others to gather or publish information inconvenient to it.

A group of Trump-supporting operatives has been finding and ­archiving old social media postings of Times employees and other journalists for use in the ongoing brawl between the president and the press.

There’s no indication that this is dumpster-diving rather than an effort to scour readily available sources for stupid, embarrassing or offensive things that journalists have said publicly under their own power.

The Times broke the news of the campaign in an alarmed-sounding report. It related that “the material publicized so far, while in some cases stripped of context or presented in misleading ways, has proved authentic, and much of it has been professionally harmful to its targets.”

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/08/26/the-new-york-times-latest-hysterical-hypocritical-panic/

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I think it’s a bad idea for either side to rummage through old ­social media postings and writings looking for firing offenses. It’s an inherently punitive project and ­often an unfair one (no one is the sum of their tweets). But the rules of this game were established by the Left long ago. It should either change them — or stop whining.


Twitter: @RichLowry

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