Former MSNBC host
Keith Olbermann was vehemently critical of Haberman, posting, "Oh good, another fact, vital to the safety and continuation of the nation, that @maggieNYT withheld from the public for many months if not a year-and-a-half so she could put it in her f*****g book."
Similarly,
Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, tweeted, "If the NYT was a serious paper, Haberman would be fired on the spot for this. She did not do her job: full stop. This would be like a cop watching someone shoot a person right in front of them, and then just walking away and doing nothing."
Author John Pavlovitz wrote, "Maggie Haberman is another in a long line of people who were willing to let democracy die on the altar of a book deal."
@DenaePFA posted, "
She's not really a reporter if she's not reporting on it at the time. She's an access novelist." And
@Concerned4410 tweeted, "Yes we know this. He said when asked by reporters would he peacefully transfer power as all other presidents have . . .his reply. . We will see. . 'If I lose it will only be because of FRAUD'. . . You see. . He admitted his crime before it happened."
@HogsRUs, responding to Olbermann and Baker's tweets, wrote, "Spot On. @maggieNYT is employed as a reporter by the NYT. The information that she gathers on topics the newspaper pays her to cover belongs to the NYT. If not, then the NYT may as well just let her sit in her office at the paper and work on her books all day."
@Jkornack made a scathing analogy and tweeted, "To sustain the analogy, the cop would witness the murder, walk away, and then — rather than doing nothing — would sell the story to a publisher and would be invited by cable news outlets to promote the publication to maximize personal profit at the expense of society."