Meredith Whittaker vs. The Sunday Times. The journalist sounds like a bellend…

https://archive.is/2025.08.10-122951/https://www.thetimes.com/article/fbca3eda-fd9f-4e46-a2f7-36d0b05acccb?shareToken=e7975f868b30af6a385f8907f9ed727c

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I'm convinced theres less than 100 actual journalists in the entire world, and none of them are employed by the big papers.

Agreed. Most the fam on my dad’s side are former journalists. My uncle went through a tonne of shit thanks to the US State department when covering the Middle East.

But in this case the article was just silly, you’ve got someone super smart with a lot of good info probably could do better than “So do you like E.T.? What a film huh?!”.

(Obviously E.T. a top film so I’m not fronting on that).