The New York Times is forever looking down its snobby nose at uncredentialed conservative journalists exposing inconvenient stories they don’t want to touch, like the Somali fraud ring in Minnesota. There’s no Pulitzer Prize bait in that! Nick Shirley & Co. come under assault in a story by social-media reporter Nathan Taylor Pemberton.
He argued conservative creators are increasingly posting “slopulism,” low-quality political content that prioritizes populist rage, aiming to provoke policy action. Exhibit A was Nick Shirley probing fraud in Minneapolis, inspiring new videos investigating fraud in San Diego by Amy Reichert.
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