Should-Read: As Nate Silver periodically says from his personal experience from his days at the New York Times, New York Times political reporters work not for their readers but for their sources: Duncan Black: The Maggie Haberman Defense Squad: "Maggie took to Twitter last night...
...Other journalists offered other accounts, as predicted, but Maggie has THE SOURCES, so you stupid proles should stop believing FAKE NEWS.... 'Story shaping' like 'beat sweetening' is something the proles don't understand., and when they begin to understand it and say "wait a minute" journalists get huffy because This Is Just How Things Are Done And Their Jobs Are Like Really Hard Y'all...
