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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Just another case of media bias: NYT pulls a piece about Georgia voters after two ordinary Georgia voters quoted turn out to be Republican operatives. Apropos of which, this was the best thing I've read about the political media in a while.

Back in the day, when I worked in politics, there was nothing we loved more than a lazy reporter.

More than once a few of us hung out with some combination of beer, caffeine, and delivered food to bang out the core of an article that showed up under some reporter's byline, even though he really just edited our work, or even put together a proposed editorial that ran with minimal change in a major newspaper.

Assume a sizable amount of what we all read on politics was written by an operative not a reporter. Especially true of places like Fox that are pretty explicitly just a wing of the Republican party.