We woke up to the good news (culled from Twitter by my wife) that Roger Stone had been arrested and carted off in the early hours of the morn. I looked for details, as at the time we weren’t sure when, precisely, it had happened. None of my other feeds had any news so I went to the New York Times feed, and there is was. The story is old news by now, but I must comment on my reaction when I read this paragraph from the story in the Times:
He sometimes seemed to taunt American law enforcement agencies, daring them to find hard evidence to link him to the Russian election interference. His brash behavior made him less of a subject of news media scrutiny than other current and former aides to President Trump — like the character in a whodunit whom readers immediately dismiss as too obvious to have committed the crime.
Newsflash to the Times: Life isn’t like mysteries. They are fiction, and we read them precisely because they aren’t like the cut and dry details of regular life. In real life, the obvious guy is usually the guilty guy, particularly when a lot of the evidence is out there in the open and, on occasion, he practically confesses.
Almost seems like the Times is justifying the fact that it ignored an obvious story, doesn’t it? Then again, we can’t fault them, because they were right on top of the Hillary Clinton email story, and there was a lot of the obvious about that one, so they don’t miss every obvious story. Of course, in that case, it was obvious all along that it was a ginned up non-scandal, but that didn’t stop the Times from covering its front page with email stories a week before the election that brought us Individual-1.
By the way, one has to wonder why the Times never explored the curious connection between Roger Stone and the allegations against Al Franken. Maybe it was just too obvious.
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