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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A good segment on Jen Psaki's show tonight: There's a state where this year Republicans funded a fake Green candidate and multiple fake Dem candidates, none of whom live in the state (one is in prison in NY) to pull votes from Democrats in Senate and House races. Want to guess the state? Alaska!

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its fine to disagree with that assessment too, but if you are sincerely asking if my position that it was illegitimate to report on this at all, well, it isn't

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the question is not “should the NYT report on this?” (fine whatever) the question is “should the NYT do a full blown feeding frenzy about this such that it is cited in the other big papers and Trump administration DOJ court filings one week before the midterms” (obviously not)

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