Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick posted several times online Thursday targeting a New York Times reporter ahead of the publication of an article detailing his upbringing.

His posts on the social platform X were directed at the Times’s national political reporter, Katie Glueck, who is “writing a story filled w/ frivolous lies about my childhood,” McCormick said.

“If it weren’t so demeaning to my parents’ lifelong teaching careers & the college town I’m so proud to have been raised in, it might be funny,” he continued

There occurs now and then a journalistic accounting that is as marvelous as it is shocking, especially for those of us who’ve become numb to bad journalism and unsubstantiated smear passing as investigative work. Carl Cannon, the Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, has delivered a broadside to the New York Times from out of the fog.

"Are we truly so precious?” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, asked me one Wednesday evening in June 2020. I was the editorial-page editor of the Times, and we had just published an op-ed by Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas, that was outraging many members of the Times staff. America’s conscience had been shocked days before by images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, until he died. It was a frenzied time in America, assaulted by covid-19, scalded by police barbarism.

In response to a Wednesday report indicating that several journalists were embedded with Hamas terrorists in the early stages of their attack on Israel, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a sharp condemnation.

“These journalists were accomplices in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics,” the Prime Minister’s office wrote in a post on X.

Two international news agencies and The New York Times have denied claims in a viral report alleging that photojournalists may have had prior knowledge of Hamas’ attacks in Israel last month and even possibly “coordinated” with the militant group in order to document the carnage.

President Joe Biden raged against The New York Times in a private White House meeting early last week, after the Times amplified a Hamas claim that an Israeli airstrike was behind the Oct. 17 bombing of a Gaza hospital.

The news of the deadly explosion scuttled a planned presidential trip to Jordan, but the White House now believes a stray Palestinian rocket, not Israel, was to blame. (A more recent Times report has also called that assessment into question, and independent analysts continue to debate the evidence.)