Rutenberg Pens Essay on NYT’s Brave War on Trump; Mocks ‘Lies’ of Swift Boat Vets

<p><em>New York Times</em> media columnist Jim Rutenberg’s essay for <em>The Wilson Quarterly</em> was hailed as a “behind-the-scenes look” at the paper coming to journalistic life after being attacked by Trump: “How ‘Fake News’ Changed <em>The New York Times</em> – and Didn’t.” The first subhead of the <em>Wilson Quarterly</em> piece gave the game away: “Suddenly, Our Mission Got Really Clear” (Right when Trump became president!) Remember that it was Rutenberg who penned the notorious front-page jeremiad on August 8, 2016, “The Challenge Trump Poses to Objectivity.” He asked, “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies….how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”</p>