I read the whole thing and i'm sorry, but a journalist from the NYT complaining about being misrepresented? lol get that shit out of here
The NYT is a venerable news organization. One of the few left. They don't get everything right, but when they get it wrong they retract. And in most cases, they also seem to do proper due diligence for their stories as well as follow proper journalistic standards.
The NYT published historical falsehoods as the central claims in one of their highest profile publications of the last decade. That publication was then pilloried by professional historians and widely criticized as ideological propaganda masquerading as historical scholarship, because that's exactly what it was. They later walked back one of the most glaring errors, but only after months of outcry and their fact-checker, a professional historian, going public to say that he had told them what they were saying was untrue but they had printed it anyway. And they couched the correction in the weasel words of a 'clarification', which is an odd way to describe an update that completely changes the meaning of a sentence. They were later caught stealth-editing the piece and claiming that it had never said something else that had originally been its most prominent claim. Where exactly does journalistic integrity fit into this?
The NYT was a fine newspaper once, but that time is no more.