How The NYTimes Just Made Up Terrorism For Clicks

The journalistic fraud of Rukmini Callimachi

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6 min readOct 12, 2020
The “new model’ looks a lot like just making shit up

In The Departed, Matt Damon is a cop that’s cracked the case (with fake evidence lol). He’s really working for the mob. His nominal boss Alec Baldwin sits in front of a bowl of ice water, looking exhausted.

“Yeah, but cui bono? Who benefits?” he asks.

Matt looks bewildered.

“Cui gives a shit? It’s got a friggin’ bow on it,” he says.

Alec smiles and makes the sign of the cross in front of his face.

“I think you are a cop, my son,” he says, and dunks his face in the water.

The cops get a collar. The mob eliminates a rival. Everybody wins. Well, that’s not quite right. Everybody on screen wins. The poor schmucks off screen are screwed.

This same scene has recently played out in the glass offices of the New York Times. A hotshot reporter peddled a blockbuster terrorism story (based on a fake source lol). Here’s how it went down. I have a source that was in the room. I met them in an OnlyFans chatroom and boy have they got some crazy stories.

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.