The two women who wrote the Kavanaugh smear piece in the NY Times, both of which work for the New York Times, made a stunning admission last night on MSNBC:
The New York Times reporters who wrote the smear article on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh say that they included the information that the woman did not remember the incident ever happening in their article but that the editors removed it pic.twitter.com/s8bwGzrrdd
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 17, 2019
Robin Pogrebin (left in photo above) says it was an editor at the NY Times that removed the crucial information, which she and her co-author had originally included. Wow.
Of course they also cover for the editor, excusing it as a simple mistake.
But something tells me that we’re not getting the whole story here, as Pogrebin was also the author of this despicable tweet that the NY Times later had to delete:
New York Times Opinion— I can only assume accidentally— deleted this Pulitzer bound journalism. Between praising Mao and blaming airplanes, it’s the NYT family’s 3rd totally accidental deletion this month.
Don’t worry. I’ve got a screen shot. pic.twitter.com/tG9RUSeYgF
— The Red-Headed Libertarian™️ (@TRHLofficial) September 15, 2019
I have a hard time believing that the author of this tweet wasn’t somehow in on the deletion of such a pertinent detail. It’s my guess that Pogrebin and her co-author had to sign off on the edited version of the story, meaning they were complicit in the omission.
And now they can blame some anonymous editor, whose name will probably never be revealed.
UPDATE: I’m apparently not the only one with this collusion theory…
Reporters blame their editors for leaving the single most important detail out of their story. They don’t explain why they signed off on inaccurately edited version or why they didn’t say anything all day yesterday. https://t.co/2jqtDE4dOM
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 17, 2019
Great point.