Stop Dragging Maggie Haberman by Eric Wemple, WaPo, 7Oct 2022

[irisblue]

Free copy of the article here, so no paywall.
too long to c&p


https://wapo.st/3SMMXRR

[claudette]

1. Habermann

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Is a magat. I wonder if she can be charged as an accomplice for not reporting the orange moron’s crimes she knew about but waited to publish them in a book?

[Ocelot II]

4. Read the linked article. She passed a lot of the info she learned to the Times,

which decided whether or not to publish it, and often did. And quite a bit of the material in the book is stuff she wasn't told until after TFG was out of office because some people wouldn't (or were afraid to) talk to her before then. I'm reading the book now, and it's fascinating.

[claudette]

7. Why would she have to go

through "The Times" for approvable. If, for example, she said she knew he was taking documents, she should have reported it right away. I don't trust her - period.

[Ocelot II]

8. Whatever.

[PortTack]

2. Oh pleeeaz, how many times, I know of 2, that magpie said since the search in MAL that

You..I suppose she means the left, have ensured dotard’s announcement of a presidential run. Has he announced? …typical gaslighting..go the fuck away WaPo and magpie!

What trash!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Is there a specific quote in article that's most offensive?

[irisblue]

5. For me, this one from Wemples' Op-Ed

... " The attacks constitute the latest spasm of hysteria from resistance types targeting the New York Times generally and Haberman in particular. They’re based on an ignorance about journalism and an extravagant view of how scooplets can galvanize America. (They can’t.)

They’re also just plain anti-book. And books are good."

That last sentence is such a logical failure.

[PortTack]

6. Yes...them asking that we stop dragging her...why? Gaslighting is gaslighting.

She has elevated herself to some kind of expert that knows what’s going on in his head. Okay..write a book about. Credibility is lost when she makes stupid predictions like the one I referenced. She should be exposed ..I for one will continue dragging her for who she is.

[Hekate]

9. Well worth reading in full. One paragraph...

Some of Haberman’s scoops, however, were too pressing for a book-publishing schedule. In a February 2022 Times story with four bylines, Haberman reported that “staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — leading them to believe that Mr. Trump had attempted to flush documents.” This particular revelation, says Haberman, stemmed “a zillion percent” from her book reporting — not her Times beat work — so she got it into the newspaper long before the book was published. Yet the hordes still threw penalty flags for holding.
A representative gripe on Twitter: “Y]ou should have reported on what you found out when you found out, instead of waiting to cash in on a book deal.”