TL;DR: NYT's failure to fact-check is "indefensible". Your turn. An interesting question for the moderators: is this also a followup that should be penalized,

TL;DR: NYT's failure to fact-check is "indefensible". Your turn. An interesting question for the moderators: is this also a followup that should be penalized, or (since the original stories aren't on the front page) should it be penalty-free?