The Propaganda FilesThe New York Times
Michael D. Shear
New York Times reporter since 2010 who covered the Obama, Trump and Biden White Houses and moved to London as U.K. correspondent in 2025. Co-author of Border Wars (2019).
Slant Score · ranked #47 of 175 from most left to most right
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Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.
The receipts (1)
Correction / walk-back · served the left · +1.9 L · Mar 4, 2017
Wiretapped data vs. 'no evidence' (case file)
Shear co-wrote 'Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones,' weeks after the Times' front page reported 'Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.' See case file and fair note.
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