Trolling Facebook for teenage sources

This is a little unsettling. Political correspondents for the New York Times trolled Facebook and messaged random 16-year-old friends of Cindy McCain’s daughter and this is what they sent to them:

I’m a reporter at the New York Times, writing a profile of Cindy McCain, and we are trying to get a sense of what she is like as a mother. So I’m reaching out to fellow parents at her kids’ schools.

Something about this just strikes me as creepy.

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One Comment

  1. Reuben Rahaim Says:

    Hey nice one! Found this on yahoo – nice to find someone feeling like I do.


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