'Bias' even 'gross editorial bias' is a different thing that point-blank fraud.

I mean - we've come to expect media outlets to 'take sides'.

But non payment for services rendered is definitely criminal, and even though I don't like a lot of what the NYT does ... I would still assume they'd be the kind of org to actually pay people for their work. That's not a kind of ethical line we'd expect them to cross.

Undisclosed collaboration and planning with primary subjects of your journalism is point-blank fraud. It might not be criminal, but it's beyond dishonest and therefore very unethical.

Wasn't it the Washington Post that was trying to run Bernie into the ground?