Amy Chozick’s admitted remorse for committing an act of fairly unremarkable journalism during the 2016 election says so much about the current state of the news media.

Chozick, a writer for the New York Times, wrote last Friday about her time covering the Hillary Clinton campaign and her mixed feelings over “the possibility that we’d become puppets in Vladimir Putin’s master plan” when the paper published John Podesta’s emails, which had been hacked and put online by WikiLeaks.