Sanctimonious pearl clutching from the New York Times.

Journalism is defined by its own “brazen theft”. Scraping is a common practice. Cribbing off press releases is another. I could go on, so let me.

The entire concept of “newspeg” is baked in theft: what other outlets find important, you report on without question. That’s what makes certain people and events “newsworthy”. There are infinite life-altering scandals and events going on as we speak; so why do we hear the same handful of them?

Newspeg. You steal the rubric of importance from other outlets and then cover it the same way. The Times had the goods on Harvey Weinstein for years, but didn’t bother to publish the story until other outlets did it first.

This is the same outlet that published dubious accounts of Iran’s supposed “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” It turned out to be a load of hooey; so, obviously, they used no primary sources: they just cribbed the canard and pretended they did something resembling research.

The New York Times is just try to make themselves seem important as they try to shake down AI companies for some cash, nothing more.