NYT has breaking news: Fred Thompson was an actor
So how did the NYT find out about that?
Have they been reading his BIO?
I’m sure one of their vaunted “reporters”, while zoned out in a pot induced haze, saw his name in the credits after a Law and Order rerun, and shrieked, “EUREKA! What a scoop! This will save our moribund paper/ piece of asswipe from certain bankruptcy! Pinch Sulzberger himself will make me editor-in-chief!”