Don’t let @nytimes off the hook. They purposefully misled the country into thinking a notable senior Trump admin official was plotting against him when in fact it was an unknown Obama donor, Miles Taylor, from DHS. They knew what they were doing and it’s not journalism.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 28, 2020
The revelation of the identity of “Anonymous” calls into question whether the NYT had ample grounds to allow him to write without identifying him. I figured it had to be someone at cabinet level, at least.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 28, 2020
Leaving aside how one feels about Taylor's actions, I'm not sure that the NY Times decision to grant a DHS chief of staff anonymity for that op-ed and to describe him as a "senior administration official" holds up especially well.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 28, 2020
Leaving aside how one feels about Taylor's actions, I'm not sure that the NY Times decision to grant a DHS chief of staff anonymity for that op-ed and to describe him as a "senior administration official" holds up especially well.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 28, 2020
If the anonymous op-Ed writer was a nobody staffer at DHS, imagine how irrelevant all the media's other "anonymous sources familiar with the matter" during the Trump admin have been
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 28, 2020