Jeffrey Epstein, Landon Thomas And The New York Times White Wash

Landon Johnson’s handling of the Epstein article is a textbook example of how media figures bend over backwards to protect the powerful and blur the truth. Instead of cutting through the lies and giving survivors the unvarnished respect they deserve, his framing padded the edges, wrapped Epstein’s network in vague language, and downplayed the scale of the trafficking. That kind of coverage doesn’t happen by accident—it’s a choice. And it’s the exact kind of soft-focus journalism that let Epstein slip through the cracks for decades while children were being abused. Survivors didn’t need another glossy think piece; they needed someone willing to call a trafficker a trafficker and expose the rot at its core.

By reducing this horror to something palatable, Johnson didn’t just fail—he actively helped perpetuate the same culture of protection that insulated Epstein and Maxwell for years. His article reads less like journalism and more like PR for predators, wrapped in the language of legitimacy. That isn’t balance, it’s complicity. It tells survivors, yet again, that their pain comes second to reputations, wealth, and access. If journalism is supposed to speak truth to power, then Johnson betrayed the trade by laundering the crimes of a sex-trafficking empire into something safer for the elites who still squirm at the thought of being exposed. This isn’t reporting—it’s part of the cover-up.

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source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01epstein.html

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