The Mamdani affair exposes the paper’s weaknesses. Again.
The Mamdani affair exposes the paper’s weaknesses. Again.
Elizabeth Lopatto is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.
Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at The New York Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. The paper’s obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, but as Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.
The most recent — and perhaps most egregious — way this has surfaced is a story about
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