Jamo's point about the bylines is the critical indicator here. When the Times decides they really want to juice a story, they assign multiple reporters to it - in this case, NINE - which produces a torrent of articles, which then convinces everyone else in the media that this is a Really Big Deal

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Funny, I don’t remember drumbeat coverage in the Times about damning reports that Susan Collins took bribes (and that Trump then shut down the FBI anti-corruption unit investigating her). www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Jesus fucking Christ

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Happens every cycle. Remember the “caravan”? NYT ran DOZENS of stories on that Trump-manufactured non-crisis in the days leading to the 2018 midterms. This is what NYT does.

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Let me go choose a religion right quick

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