On Monday, reporters with the Washington Post spotted Phillips enter the New York offices of Project Veritas - an organization that goes after mainstream media organizations through undercover 'stings' hoping to expose supposed bias.
In fact, Project Veritas's project may have done the exact opposite. In the article detailing the failed sting, Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron points out that because of the Post's extraordinary journalistic standards, they were able to uncover the 'fake news.'
?[T]his so-called off-the-record conversation was the essence of a scheme to deceive and embarrass us,? Post Executive Editor Martin Baron said Monday. ?The intent by Project Veritas clearly was to publicize the conversation if we fell for the trap. Because of our customary journalistic rigor, we weren?t fooled, and we can?t honor an ?off-the-record? agreement that was solicited in maliciously bad faith.?
