NBC’s Today took up the Claudine Gay story again on Thursday…not as reporters, but as repeaters. Reporter Erin McLaughlin was a stenographer to deposed power, quoting large passages of Gay’s op-ed in Thursday’s New York Times, titled “What Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me.” It’s the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!
Hoda Kotb introduced this video press release: “Just one day after she resigned from the top job at the prestigious school, she’s speaking out in a New York Times op-ed piece. In it, she suggested that she was the victim of a coordinated campaign to remove her.”
McLaughlin began: “In that letter, Claudine Gay says she’s received death threats and called the truth aty amid controversy. And she tried to shed new light on her brief tenure as Harvard president that was plagued with allegations of plagiarism in her…
