Every time the topic of papers not fact-checking opinion pieces comes up, I'm reminded that a music critic here in MN once wrote an entire commentary putting my orchestra on blast for not building our European tour around a piece of new American music when we had literally done exactly that.
I didn't check the news today, but do I have this right that the world's most self-important newspaper ran an op-ed by a Hitler Youth-looking motherfucker explaining why voting is bad and he never does it, and it took 6 seconds for someone to look up that he in fact votes in every election?
It's infuriating because when I had a piece published in the NYT's opinion section, it was fact checked within an inch of its life - they even called my doctors and read my medical records and test results. Pretty invasive. But they couldn't check that guy's voting record? ðŸ˜
