Former Politico Reporter, Now With the NY Times, Apparently Steals Photo of Gianforte Complaint from Local Reporter; Won't Admit He Stole Without Attribution, Despite "His" Picture Having the Same Shadows on It as the Local Reporter's

But we should trust reporters, because they are the High Priests of Truth.

Bermes [a local reporter in Bozeman, MT] herself reached out to say that

[NYT re-reporter Jonathan Martin had] "obtained" the photo from her Twitter feed without attribution to her. Instead of simply apologizing and owning up to what he did, JMart, who is the second husband of DC socialite and former Meet the Press executive producer Betsy Fischer Martin, doubled down with a denial. The Montana-based court reporter pointed out how the two pictures are the exact same image. "Same piece of paper redacting my personal information, same shadow. That�s my photo," wrote Bermes.

See images at the link. A guy intervened in the dispute to say that after comparing them, they were identical, except for resizing and compression. i don't know if that guy's an expert or who he is, really, but they do look similar, and Jonathan Martin did not say where he "obtained" it from.