NYT’s Latest Miss: The Harris Book Fake Controversy
Well, here we are again, folks. It seems the New York Times has once more fallen into the trap of "publish first, question later" when it comes to Kamala Harris.
In their latest foray into the realm of non-stories masquerading as journalism, they've decided to breathe life into accusations so flimsy they'd struggle to hold up a paper airplane: A conservative activist has cried "plagiarism" over a 15-year-old book, and somehow, this warrants the full Times treatment.
Right from the headline, we're witnessing the birth of a non-story. The use of "seizes" suggests an opportunistic grab rather than a substantive discovery. Note the immediate counterpoint from a plagiarism expert, which should have been the end of this horsefuckery. Instead, it's just the beginning of a narrative that never needed to unfold.
Let's put these numbers in perspective. We're talking about 0.77% of the book's content. If this were a 2-hour movie, we'd be discussing about 55 seconds of footage. Is this really worthy of national attention? The inclusion of these statistics in the article already undermines its own newsworthiness.
