A big reason voters claim to be unaware of Trump's promise to begin functioning as a dictator on day 1 of his presidency is that the corporate media have normalized Trump. While focusing laser intensity on the made-up "problem" of Biden's age, they let Trump say one dangerous thing after another and give him a pass. They have allowed him and the Republicans to whitewash his previous time in the White House. New York Times leads the way.
Are Jack Shafer at Politico and New York Times going to be "all over Biden" this morning, as Shafer just proudly proclaimed he and other journalists are right now, while he defended the New York Times' atrocious coverage of Biden and Trump?
Interesting, isn't it, that they think they need to be "all over Biden" but NOT Trump.
"Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants. …
Publisher A.G. Sulzberger — perhaps unintentionally — showed his hand in a speech on Monday at Oxford University on 'Journalistic Independence in a Time of Division.'"
"In an article entirely about a poll question asking if people think Trump committed serious crimes, the New York Times never once told readers that most people think he did commit serious crimes. It instead portrayed the poll finding as good news for Trump, and quoted only respondents who said he did not commit crimes."
This is scary reporting, for two reasons. First, implying that a court inquest should validate sexual violence through "evidence" beyond survivor/witness accounts, gaslights all sexual assault survivors. Hamas committed grave atrocities on October 6th. Has anybody questioned that?
Second, Israeli soldiers committing sexual violence against Palestinians is not a tertiary aside. Nobody deserves sexual or artillery violence. Period.
#NewYorkTimes must stop justifying continued escalation.
Back of Bourke on what the New York Times is ALWAYS about when it comes to Biden, the Democrats, the left — and is about all over again with its latest poll of 980 people out of a population of 161.42 million, 30% of whom said they get their news from Fox:
"Sowing doubt. Always sowing doubt."
Yes. That sums it up. Sowing doubt. Undermining. Attacking. Trying in every way possible to move the needle to the right.
The fucking Times. It follows up yesterday's awful poll with another. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias--the agenda--in their poll. Who made age an "issue"? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing's projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.
I think it lost its credibility a long time ago. Remember the breathless regurgitating of US gvt lies on Iraq., for example. This is just more of the same.
It's like they don't read their own coverage (for instance, of the strong effect of #FoxNews coverage on people who watch the top-rated cable network) and thus they fail to contextualize going along (short thread) #NewYorkTImes#USPol
"Build railroads at the same time that you were building roads, and solving the metropolitan transportation problem would be greatly simplified. Pour all available funds into roads without building railroads, and that problem would never be solved. Public exposure to this point of view was limited. Editorials such as the one in the herald-tribune that so aroused #RobertMoses ire were rare. Nonexistent in the two newspapers most decisive in shaping public opinion in NY - the NYT and Daily News."
"As best I can tell, and as of mid-afternoon on the day after Navalny’s killing, Donald Trump has never once, in any way, in any venue, at any time dared criticize Vladimir Putin. If there is an example I’m missing, please let me know."
Yet as Fallows also notes,
"For Donald Trump there never seems to be a turning point. His political story since 2015 is of setbacks what would have been fatal for other candidates."
And despite those repeated setbacks that would prove fatal for other candidates, "it bounces off" Trump.
"One week ago, the NYT on its front page flatly declared that Robert Hur’s snark about Joe Biden was 'a political disaster' for Biden. Let’s see how they frame [the Trump and Putin story after Navalny]. And let’s see if voters care."