May 27, 2021
Schadenfreude overload: NY Times COVID beat reporter discredits her own coverage and then deletes smoking-gun tweet
By
Thomas Lifson
Twitter may have devolved into a left-wing propaganda organ, but it still has value as a medium for leftists to discredit themselves with hasty expression of their real thoughts and feelings. Particularly for journalists accustomed to relying on editors to save themselves from revealing too much, the speed with which their unfiltered thoughts can be broadcast to the world is dangerous. The latest example comes from the New York Times reporter assigned to cover what may be the hottest story of our era: the COVID virus that turned the world upside-down and killed millions.
Apoorva Mandavilli at first seems to have thought that just as the agitprop media were being forced to admit that it isn't a crazy conspiracy theory to suspect that COVID emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it was time to discredit such ideas as racist...at least in origin:
Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not here yet.
That tweet has now been deleted, leading Stephen Miller to suspect she got a phone call from someone who realized that this view discredits her own and the Times' reporting on the story, since it rules out what now is seen as an important line of inquiry.