Do they really put themselves on some kind of pedestal?
The NY Times better get hustling.......this dummy sounds like they let loose another Janet Cooke on the populace.
REFERENCE: Janet Cooke was a Black journalist who worked for the Washington Post......and get this......
she won a Pulitzer Prize for a story that was completely fabricated. Cooke subsequently returned the Pulitzer, the only person to date to do so, after admitting she had fabricated stories.
Cooke was hired by lying through her teeth. Cooke falsely claimed she had a degree from Vassar College and a master's degree from the University of Toledo, and that she had received a journalism award while at the Toledo Blade. Cooke had attended Vassar for just a year, and had received only a bachelor's degree from Toledo.
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In a September 28, 1980, article in the Post, titled "Jimmy's World", Cooke wrote a profile of the life of an eight-year-old Black heroin addict. She described the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms."
The story engendered much empathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent.
<><> Before coming to The Times in 2018, she was a City Hall reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering Mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, and dozens of other stories that have shaped the nation’s largest, most dynamic city.
<><> Ms. Gay has also worked for the New York Daily News, The Atlantic and The Daily, an all-digital newspaper owned by News Corp.
<><> She has a degree in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a New York City native and lives in Brooklyn.