New York Times - Bastion of Truth

I see Candace Owens was contacted by The New York Times wondering why she was claiming Ukraine was a very corrupt country - “which matched comments we’ve seen made from Russian state media” - with the obvious intent of tainting her by association. She responded by saying she had got this information about Ukraine’s corruption - including probably stuff like state sponsored neo-Nazism - from articles she’d previously read in the New York Times. (These probably date from a little while before a complete shift in narrative, thus explaining why they forgot they wrote them.) She then provided the New York Times links to some of said articles earlier written by themselves, whose substance eagle-eyed New York Times staff noticed matched comments also being made by Russian state media. 

What to do next for the NY Times truth tellers? “If we delete those articles from the database, no one will know we ever wrote them. We can say anyone claiming we wrote them is just a mouthpiece for Russian disinformation.” “Brilliant!”