‘New York Times’ Contacts Article Subject's Mother. Twitter Erupts In Fury.
Mother’s Day is almost a month from now, yet already a bitter dispute has erupted over The New York Times’ decision to interview the mother of a profile subject for a front-page story that featured a liberal Washington think tank.
It’s one of those quarrels that probably could only have occurred among media, political and policy elites in the Beltway bubble of Washington, D.C., who have suddenly decided to impersonate scorpions in a bottle.
Fighting words such as “disgusting” and “pathetic,” along with allegations of sexism against the newspaper, have been part of a fusillade of invective launched by former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aide Neera Tanden, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and an army of sympathizers who clearly hated Tuesday’s report, which focused on the think tank head’s mutual antipathy with the Bernie Sanders campaign.