The New York Times' recent report on Zohran Mamdani's Columbia University application raised a lot of questions, such as: In what universe does this fall under the umbrella of news that's fit to print? Why did the paper of record report on hacked materials it obtained from a quasi-anonymous online race scientist, given its prior refusal to report on other hacked materials of questionable provenance? And most importantly for our purposes - even if we concede that Mamdani's college application was indeed newsworthy and acknowledge that journalists' sources will at times include people with retrograde or abhorrent views - why was the Times defe …
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