politics
RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters
NYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy’s response seems to show NYT is right.
TL;DR
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded angrily to a New York Times article suggesting he is disengaged from his role as Health Secretary.
- Kennedy claimed his publicly available calendar could refute the report's allegations.
- Journalists from Stat News and Ars Technica stated that Kennedy's calendar is not publicly available and that their requests for it have been ignored.
- The lack of access to Kennedy's calendar and the HHS's unresponsiveness to information requests contradict his earlier promises of 'radical transparency'.
- Kennedy's social media post also acknowledged the HHS's practice of withholding information from certain journalists, which critics interpret as blacklisting.