Today I saw Susan McDougal plastered all over CNN and elsewhere as breaking news. Which confused me, because Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker already reported the story, details and all, back on February 16th.
Same with Cambridge Analytica. If you read The New Yorker, you already knew all about this shady operation back (maybe not all of the gory details, but still) in a March 2017 profile of Robert Mercer.
This is not a humblebrag about how I read The New Yorker (but you should know that I totally read The New Yorker). I'm just baffled on how some of their stories seem to get no national traction until someone else reports it and takes credit.
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