{"id":2387417,"date":"2025-01-07T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-almost-sorry-for-kavanaugh-hit-piece\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:34:02","slug":"new-york-times-reporter-almost-sorry-for-kavanaugh-hit-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-almost-sorry-for-kavanaugh-hit-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Reporter Almost Sorry For Kavanaugh Hit Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-reporter-almost-sorry-for-kavanaugh-hit-piece%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Writer Mark Judge, who endured public scrutiny alongside Justice Brett \u200bKavanaugh during the controversial 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, recently shared that a New York Times reporter, David Enrich, nearly apologized to him for his reporting\u200b at the \u200dtime. \u200bIn a message to Judge, Enrich \u2062expressed that\u2062 he had spent considerable time reflecting on his coverage of \u2064the Kavanaugh nomination \u200cand indicated that he \u2062would\u2062 approach it \u200cdifferently today. This acknowledgment \u2063was surprising to judge, who \u2064noted that journalists rarely admit mistakes.EnrichS message contained a tone of \u200dcontrition, leading Judge to inquire further about the lessons he\u2062 had learned; however, Enrich declined to elaborate, citing the\u2063 need for a more in-depth conversation \u2064later.\u2064 Judge\u200c criticized the \u200bbelated admission of error, especially considering the severity of the accusations made during the\u200d hearings. Notably, Enrich is currently promoting\u2063 his new book, &#8220;Murder the Truth: Fear, the First\u200b Amendment, \u200cand \u2064a Secret \u2062Campaign to Protect the Powerful,&#8221; as he engages with media outlets.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Writer Mark Judge, who was dragged through the mud along with Justice Brett Kavanaugh in messy 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, reported this week that a New York Times reporter came close to apologizing to him for shoddy reporting. An occurrence so rare, Judge was moved to write about it on Monday in <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclesmagazine.org\/web\/nyt-reporter-regrets-kavanaugh-hit-i-have-learned-some-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronicles Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times reporter David Enrich responded to a question Judge sent him about Enrich&rsquo;s 2018 coverage of the Kavanaugh nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage, and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time,&rdquo; Enrich wrote to Judge, leaving him shocked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wait &hellip; what? Journalists never admit when they&rsquo;re wrong. About anything. Ever. Yet the substance and tone of his message suggested that of a contrite person who might believe he made mistakes. In my experience, this was an extraordinary statement coming from a reporter at the country&rsquo;s leading newspaper,&rdquo; Judge wrote. &ldquo;Naturally, I asked Enrich to elaborate: What were the lessons learned? What would he do differently? &rsquo;This is a subject for a longer conversation that I&rsquo;m not going to have over the holidays,&rsquo; he wrote. &lsquo;Sorry.&rsquo; Then he added this: &lsquo;I can&rsquo;t imagine what it was like for you to go thru that.&rsquo;&nbsp; Wow. A New York Times reporter who had gone after Brett [Kavanaugh], and me, was sounding apologetic. He was recognizing that he had done some things poorly and had put me and Kavanaugh through hell.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is too little, too late. You can&rsquo;t be on the team that makes baseless accusations of a drunken sexual assault and think &ldquo;[I would] probably do certain things differently next time,&rdquo; covers it.<\/p>\n<p>But Enrich must be nice; he has a new book to promote &mdash; <em>Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. <\/em>He is making the media rounds and will want folks to be fair with him.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Judge and Kavanaugh were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/holocaust-survivors-condemn-harris-comparing-trump-to-hitler\/\" title=\"Holocaust Survivors Condemn Harris Comparing Trump To Hitler\">high school mates<\/a> in the 1980s. When President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, the left devised an ugly story to block his chances.<\/p>\n<p>They trotted out Christine Blasey Ford to testify to Congress that, 30 years before, she allegedly<a> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/heres-what-the-4-affidavits-supporting-kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attended a party<\/a> where she was allegedly in a room with Kavanaugh and Judge. Ford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/i-went-to-georgetown-prep-and-knew-mark-judge-and-i-believe-christine-blasey-ford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that Kavanaugh assaulted her by allegedly pinning her to a bed, trying to remove her clothes, and covering her mouth when she tried to scream. She claimed Judge jumped onto the bed, the three tumbled to the floor, and with that move, Ford was able to leave the room. Her memory was fuzzy. Kavanaugh denied it. Judge has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/18\/politics\/mark-judge-brett-kavanaugh-allegations-senate-judiciary-committee\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no memory of it<\/a>. The thinking public was not buying it. The left needed to bolster the story.<\/p>\n<p>Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/10\/02\/new-york-times-preparing-hit-piece-on-brett-kavanaugh-for-party-planning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broke a story<\/a> at the time predicting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">hit piece<\/a> to advance the narrative that high school Kavanaugh was a bad dude.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having failed to corroborate any allegations of rape against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The New York Times is now preparing to smear him for organizing party planning and logistics more than 30 years ago. This comes on the heels of a blockbuster Times report alleging that Kavanaugh might have thrown ice at someone at some point in the 1980s,&rdquo; Hemingway wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, party planning. Enrich received a copy of a decades-old, hand-printed letter making arrangements for a payment on overnight lodging that Kavanaugh wrote to his pals as a teenager. In it, he used typical language a teen boy would use with peers. This was 1982, an era when Hollywood was normalizing bawdy teen language with movies like &ldquo;Porky&rsquo;s,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Last American Virgin,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Fast Times at Ridgemont High.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Teen Kavanaugh wrote &ldquo;It would probably be a good idea on Sat. the 18th to warn the neighbors that we&rsquo;re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The letter established that there was a party and drinking was planned. It did not prove Ford was there or that anyone was harmed. Yet it took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/02\/us\/brett-kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two reporters,<\/a> Enrich and Kate Kelly, to &ldquo;investigate&rdquo; this letter in an attempt to sully Kavanaugh&rsquo;s name and bolster the plausibility of Ford&rsquo;s tall tale.<\/p>\n<p>A halfhearted attempt at &ldquo;sorry&rdquo; in a private email six years later is pretty weak for a man who makes his living with words.<\/p>\n<p>The hit piece didn&rsquo;t work. Kavanaugh was confirmed. We are left with a textbook example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">media helps push political narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether blowing things out of proportion, intimating imaginary story lines, or outright lying, members of the media lose credibility, and everyone they touch in the process is harmed, when they stray from precision truth telling.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lara-logan-challenges-media-to-ask-certain-questions-about-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Lara Logan Challenges Media To Ask Certain Questions About Afghanistan\">award-winning investigative journalist<\/a> with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Judge revealed a rare near-apology from a NYT reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2387418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/David-Enrich.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6733,5157,9068,41580,33263],"class_list":["post-2387417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy","tag-journalism","tag-kavanaugh","tag-media-ethics","tag-new-york-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/David-Enrich.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387421,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387417\/revisions\/2387421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}