<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The NYTimes has a lingering credibility problem for its handling of the Russia collusion story, and subsequently receiving the Pulitzer prize in 2018 for a story it later had to partially retract.</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That statement is factually incorrect, The New York Times did <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>NOT</u> </span>retract <u>any part</u> of the stories that it won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for. In response to complaints from MAGA people the Pulitzer board conducted two independent reviews of the award in 2022 and concluded that "<i>no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes</i>." </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You're probably confusing the New York Times with the Washington <span class="gmail_default" style="">P</span>ost which was the co-winner of the 2018 Pulitzer, they retracted parts of their reporting regarding the Steele Dossier, but not the main prize-winning articles <span class="gmail_default" style="">that they</span> won the prize for.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">And by the way, right wing media never retracts anything, is that because their reporting is always perfect? </b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div></div>