Didn't another NYT pooh-bah--perhaps retired, I don't recall which one at the moment--have the audacity to declare that news reporting should no longer be objective, that the "lived experiences" of reporters should be folded in? I was appalled.

Sulzberger's comment strikes me the same. Yes, "disinformation" is a serious problem, as Matt's reporting lays out so well. But the bigger problem is the utter lack of will by the NYT, among others, to dig into and dismantle the disinformationists. Governments will always abuse, it's the nature of power. We depend on a free and independent press corps to stop these abuses---and our biggest and most well-funded news operators take a pass.