Truest statement of the week

Tipped-off by Adams’ conspiring exes, the Times pored over thousands of Adams’ text messages and produced a 5,200-word exposée above the fold in the arts section.
Employing techniques that resemble those employed by the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Times editors deploys their posse of journalistic bounty hunters to search for, seize and sniff the underwear and bed sheets of whoever the editors have targeted for destruction.

If the “newspaper of record” had conducted half as thorough an investigation into the George W. Bush administration’s claims of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, over a million Iraqis and 5,000 US soldiers may still be alive.

-- Eric London, "New York Times places songwriter Ryan Adams in the crosshairs of its #MeToo witch hunt" (WSWS).