NYT reporter rips ‘overreaction’ to Jan. 6 riots in Project Veritas sting
March 12, 2022 | New York
Perhaps no major publication has hyped the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot more than The New York Times, but one of its top reporters says the event has been blown out of proportion.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Matthew Rosenberg was caught on hidden-camera video by Project Veritas saying he had “fun” covering the 2021 melee, mocking colleagues who said they were traumatized, and blaming the “left’s overreaction” with fueling the backlash on the right.
“The left’s overreaction – the left’s reaction to it in some places was so over the top that it gave the opening the right needed to start introducing the idea of, ‘Whoa, these people are out of control. Like, it’s not as big of a deal they’re making it,’” Mr. Rosenberg said on the video. “Because they were making it too big a deal.”… (Excerpt from the Washington Times)
