Has this been a pattern? Do you have examples? Are there stories that the nytimes covers that other papers don't cover that suddenly become bills? What inspired this?
Your post comes across as a lot of innuendo without providing any support... at all.
hackers? since may? ie. when all the shadow_brokers exploits were released that any script-kiddy could point and click at a box and pwn it..?
the article implies these are nation state actors trying todo harm. a BS article trying to push a political agenda.
Secondly, even if I were to find an article that is related to some piece of legislation, it would only be speculative and wouldn't prove that it is a "hit piece" in support for or against it.
Thirdly, off the top of my head, I can only think of a few things: SOPA from January 2012, Patriot Act (as mentioned earlier), the iPhone/FBI encryption fiasco (which did not result in any legislation yet, afaik), Net Neutrality, and Snowden/Wikileaks stuff (again, did not result in legislation afaik).
More examples are always welcome, but as I said, it is really tricky to speculate on the existence of a conspiracy based on a few articles and some hindsight - you really open yourself to confirmation bias, subconsciously. And for the record, I'd love to prove this is true.
As I said, this kind of thing is extremely difficult to prove without a smoking gun (e.g. an email from the head of state to the head of NYT instructing them what to publish, when or why). And, as both you and I agree, it is impossible to prove without equating correlation/causation or having confirmation bias in retrospect.
and i dont need any examples to prove my point other then, read some history and get educated.
1. No news outlet is impartial, neither major nor fringe outlets. (Most fringe outlets are more partial, though.)
2. Major news outlets mostly report the truth and correct errors when they are discovered.
> read some history and get educated
I always ask critiques of major news outlets to suggest alternative news sources and they either come up with nothing or evidently ridiculous suggestions such as blogs, conspiracy sites, and fringe right-wing or left-wing news aggregators that barely employ journalists, let alone a network of correspondents.
The best way to keep yourself informed is to compare different major news outlets, and if they agree on a story, then it's most likely true, because there is only one reality. It's really as simple as that.