“I’ll give the New York Times some credit.”
I won’t. Why should they be given credit for doing what should be a routine part of their job, for once?
multiple examples of FakeNews in this piece:
10 Jan: Sputnik: Russian to Conclusions? NYT Misreports Manafort’s Ukraine Ties as Russian
The newspaper’s Twitter account later redacted the statement and tweeted a correction, but the eagerness to jump to conclusions that fit their preconceived narrative is worrisome. It’s also far from the first incident of carelessly biased reporting by the mainstream media regarding Russiagate topics.
Let’s take a moment to recall some of them...
In September 2017 (wow, 2017 was a bad year for reporting on Trump and Russia!), almost every major US news outlet reported that Russian-government-backed hackers targeted the voting systems of 21 states during the 2016 presidential election. However, a senior Department of Homeland Security official corrected this before Congress, telling a House of Representatives panel that November that no attack had happened. Virtually no network reported this whatsoever, except for Sputnik.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201901101071349316-NYT-Misreports-Manaforts-Ukraine-Ties-as-Russian/