The New York Times Goes Deep…for Propaganda

Photo by Rafael Hoyos Weht

Pornographic associations aside, I’m old enough to remember when “Deep Throat” was a quasi-heroic figure spilling the beans on U.S. government malfeasance during Watergate. In the New Year, Deep Throat is a shapeless phantom who peddles propaganda for the New York Times. He/she/they might as well be a clerk in the Times mailroom, for all we know. What’s important is that they get to make claims the Times wants to promote sound more real by coming from a secret source.