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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else really depressed by this followup? I’m a reader and an artist and a DCUM-elite-liberal-arts-educated-person (lol) and even my most jaded, cynical, suspicious self is STILL just sad and let down by these mean grub street writers, by the nyt, by kolker, by his editors, all of it. [/quote]

Yes. Me too.

I'm not the hysterical woman he wants to paint me as. I'm just worn out from the drumpf years of hate and misogyny. I live in Loudoun where the crazy extremists seem to winning. There is so much sexism and racism here that I can't believe it's 2021. Seeing a major respected news source misrepresent in such an damaging way a story about a woman being bullied so extremely and in a way that completely surrounded her
is so hard to take.  I'm so fed up with the bullying that it hurts to see one of my preferred news sources joining in in the destruction of an innocent person's life and insulting the readers who are offended.

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This is such a good comment, PP. I can’t stand the completely needless bullying and complicity. Gosh isn’t journalism supposed to hold the people in power accountable? Or is that too circa 1990s of me? [/quote]

DP.

I feel like this is just one more nail in the coffin of my childhood faith in investigative journalism, and I don't think I am alone. I think there are a lot of us who are gen x and early millennials who were raised with the idea of journalist as defender of truth, post-Watergate, post-My Lai.  We aren't old enough to remember Watergate or the Vietnam War ourselves, but our teachers and parents were, and they taught us about the brave journalists that spoke the truth. And that framed our childhood. I remember books about Nelly Bly and Ida B. Wells, and high school history classes where the reporter was the truth teller, the force for moral good. We grew up in a world where we saw reporters as defenders of the weak and exploited.

But then we got to the 2010s and with the rise of Black Lives Matter and Me Too, we realized just how often those same reporters that we had lionized did not choose to tell certain stories. We looked the glowing articles that the NYT wrote about Weinstein and asked ourselves, surely they'd heard? Surely someone had whispered to them at some point, had passed on a tip? Similarly, did the NYT just not find the number of young Black men who died at the hands of police worth questioning for years? Why wasn't sexual harassment deemed newsworthy, or police violence, but there was time and positive energy devoted to Woody Allen?

Of course the NYT proactively choosing to distort the story of a kidney donor with a working class background is nowhere near a broad societal impact as its failures on MeToo or BLM. But I think watching this play out in this one small example is simply crystalizing a growing sense that the investigative journalism we used to admire just can't be trusted, that the NYT is simply one more corrupt institution that protects the interests of the already-powerful. And yes, for those of us raised with the idea of investigative journalism as a force for good, this is saddening. 
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