They Never Learn: Maggie Haberman Normalizes Trump. Again.
(From Nov 22, 2016, CNN interview of Maggie Haberman on meeting with President-elect Donald Trump with other NY Times reporters and editors post-election)
Back in 2004, the editorial staff of The New York Times published a mea culpa on how they fell down on the job in covering the run up and implementation of the Iraq invasion and occupation:
"...[W]e have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged -- or failed to emerge."
One would hope that a chastised and chastened New York Times would make doubly-- triply -- sure to not get snowed by a barrage of right wing propaganda and lies and strive to do actual journalism.
Sadly, not so much.
Maggie Haberman, who has spent much of the election season normalizing Trump on behalf of "The Gray Lady", filed this article this week on Trump's presidential appointments: