Posted on 06/26/2018 5:27:54 AM PDT by simpson96
The New York Times is doing stories on its own reporter, a perfect instance of meta-reportage, under the pious guise of how the Ali Watkins revelations of sleeping with sources – multiple sources, it turns out – "rattled the Washington media."
Really? Never seen a news agency do a full investigative piece, full of unsourced gossip, about one of its own reporters and her love life, from all her chatty, unnamed colleagues, as straight news. It's actually more like high school. It also suggests that the NYT higher-ups are getting ready to get rid of her. Maybe they care about their credibility after all, the way Abe Rosenthal once did.
Not that the long Times piece as it went out wasn't newsworthy.
Watkins, according to the New York Times story, seems to have been "doing" source after source as the Times' own resident honeytrap journalist, turning the craft of journalism into a KGB-style "swallow" or "sparrow" operation, with plenty more sources than just the now busted Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James Wolfe. Nice way to get scoops and best your competition.
Except that now the readers know.
The Times went through Watkins's career, news agency by news agency, to pretty well attempt to make each one of them look as bad as the Times itself does for hiring her as its star reporter.
The picture they painted shows that so long as the scoops were coming, nobody in any of the cavalcade of news agencies she worked for wanted to look too closely at how she was getting those scoops, or, to put it a bit ickily, know how the sausage was made.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So they’re admitting they hired a known whore.
L
The last pic looks like a guy. Sort of.
Oh well, we already know there is no bottom to the depths of slime to which journalists and democrats (but I repeat myself) will go.
She does fit the progressive profile though. Average (or less) in every way.
Yikes. She’s a two-bagger.
Hmm. I know the name, first time I have seen the face. I guess there are some guys out there somewhere who might be into that.
Or maybe she has special skills in the bedroom that her journalistic targets found most appealing.
Maybe she needs MORE makeup and different glasses. That last picture where she has no makeup buttresses that point! (Whaaat? That’s a mask? I had some trouble distinguishing that...)
Her only “crime” was being exposed.
Her exposure just adds to the belief that journalism is not about informing the public but advancing a progressive agenda.
She has become a (willing) victim for the cause. It will be interesting to find out who hires her if let go from the NY Times.
There is something disturbing about that third picture down.
I am thinking Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
“It will be interesting to find out who hires her if let go...”
I predict she’ll be ‘rewarded’ with another job at some left-wing magazine/newspaper/tv show, etc.
Doris Kearns Goodwin slept with LBJ when she was a "White House Fellow," and subsequently wrote a book (her first) about him.
What I find disturbing is that is the Left’s idea of a “Honeypot Reporter”...
I mean...come on.
Doris Kearns Goodwin.
I’m not surprised, but - Ugh.
So Ali is carrying on the ‘tradition’ of the (oftentimes) fugly liberal female’s route to success...
“Swallow” fits well with her, if you get my drift...
Honestly, please don’t use the word “exposed” when referring to her. It makes me throw up in my throat a little.
Well,, she’d better have something going for her in the sack other than looks....
They could have at least hired a cute one.
Yes...although Glenn Close never looked like that on her worst day.
I assume there is a young gay male reporter too!
Guilty!!!
Gahhh! Just the thought...
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