This update's a heart breaker. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

I thought it was when the editor-in-chief looks over your explosive investigation into Metropolis's most powerful citizen and his only notes are: "It's perfect." (And you bypass legal and standards review entirely.)

Second paragraph >

Needs a companion series: Tar Nation

Aaaand here's a gift version, so more folks can read it, which I meant to do in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Biggest journalistic inaccuracy in the movie? No way a top editor like Perry White reviews a heave like that and responds: “It’s perfect.”