A senior Times journalist has been caught on tape admitting his paper overreacted to the Capitol riot.
It was like a scene from a political black comedy: a senior journalist for the most powerful newspaper in the world getting doorstepped, like a grubby politician caught with his pants down.
Matthew Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war journalist turned national-security correspondent for the New York Times, was secretly recorded running his mouth to an unidentified female companion. Videos of their conversations were released last week by the controversial group Project Veritas. And in one in particular, Rosenberg gives a jaw-dropping interpretation of the events of 6 January 2021, when some Trump supporters rioted at the US Capitol building as Congress was voting to ratify the 2020 election. What makes Rosenberg’s interpretation so shocking is that it is quite at odds with his own reporting in the Times.
