New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story - The Washington Post - 6:07 AM 1/29/2019
New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story - The Washington Post "The article in question was published on Oct. 31, 2016, and it has received a great deal of hindsight-aided scrutiny for the role it may have played in easing voters’ concerns about ties between Donald Trump and Russia. Under the bylines of Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers, the story, headlined “ Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia ,” hit the public sphere just as other outlets — Slate and Mother Jones — published reports that began poking at the outlines of possible collusion. Following the election, then-New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd knocked the newspaper for proceeding too timidly." "In April, fired FBI director James B. Comey’s book tour provided yet another opportunity to revisit the Halloween story. In an interview with New Yorker Editor David Remnick, Comey trashed the piece: “At least wit