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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor a solid year, Media has derided President Biden. NYTimes AGAIN today.
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"as Dems near finish line on historic bills, press scrambles to frame victory as a failure";
One year ago, America was getting ready to vote in the most critical election in history.
America showed up for Joe Biden.
Yet the Media just never got over their dangerous addiction to ratings & profits.
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Joinfortmill
(14,446 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,481 posts)I cancelled my subscription to the NYT a long time ago. The NYT is very biased against Democrats and the NYT coverage of the Clinton tapes helped elect TFG. I am happy with my subscription with the Washington Post and have issues opening articles posted on the NYT due to the clear bias of this paper. It seems that I am not alone This is a long but good article on the NYT
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See https://newrepublic.com/article/146828/lefts-war-new-york-times
Reporter Michael Schmidt was criticized for not asking more follow-up questions during an impromptu sit-down with Trump in December. His colleague Richard Fausset was accused of normalizing a neo-Nazi in his profile of an Ohio white nationalist the month before. Critics frequently charge that the Times is preoccupied with giving a voice to Trump supporters or even just saying something nice about the president, and the paper has openly struggled with how to cover racists. Broader criticisms go to questions of framing and contextwhether news analysis of Trump is too gentle, like when Peter Baker described the presidents reality-show accessibility, or why the Times mobile phone push notifications seem strangely favorable to the White House. And then theres the steady moan about the Times opinion sectionnot just stalwarts like Brooks and Ross Douthat, but Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss, both of whom joined the paper last year from The Wall Street Journal.....
Yet many on the left refuse to forget the Times transgressions over the years, such as when it helped President George W. Bush sell the Iraq War. Many complaints have to do with its coverage of just one Democratic family. As Esquires Charles Pierce wrote in mid-2016, while Hillary Clinton and Trump faced off for the presidency:
The Times obsession with finding somethinganything!it could hang on the Clintons goes all the way back to that moment three editors ago when the paper realized that its big Whitewater scoop was little more than a bag of Arkansas hot air. It has continued through the coverage of the Benghazi nothingburger, the e-mail nothingburger, and now, the Clinton Foundation nothingburger. When it comes to the once and (perhaps) future president of the United States, the Newspaper of Record is the In-and-Out of nothingburgers.
Its a very neurotic relationship American liberals have with The New York Times, and that The New York Times has with American liberals, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen told me. I think it has a lot to do with the Clintons. Rosen said the paper has always prided itself on challenging Democrats as well as Republicans, which sometimes rankles its core readership (including liberal journalists). He said, I think there is more tension now between the core loyalists of The New York Times and the newsroom, and its because of the political situation.
Of course, many liberal critics blame the current political situation in part on the Times. Willis, a longtime blogger who spent 13 years at Brocks pro-Clinton media watchdog group Media Matters before joining Shareblue, concedes the paper has some of the best reporters there are and does good work. But he insists the Times hates liberals and harbored institutional hatred for Clinton during the campaign, a claim former Times executive editor Jill Abramson has vehemently denied. Willis went so far as to tweet, a few weeks after the 2016 election, that his followers shouldnt subscribe to either the Times or the Post since it only encourages the bastards.
Explicit calls for progressives to pull their money from the Times are surprisingly common now. Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, a liberal in good standing with the likes of Tanden, is a prominent example:
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mzmolly
(51,003 posts)as well.
calimary
(81,419 posts)mzmolly
(51,003 posts)dalton99a
(81,565 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)And nothing has been enacted yet.
Dont think its Bidens fault, but the Prez usually gets the criticism.
Evolve Dammit
(16,754 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Hes talking about taxing the rich. Meanwhile he has my complete support - Go Joe!
Cha
(297,501 posts)in Hell.
I cut them OFF in November 2002.
The GD Masochists are living up to "Fake news" with President Biden.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)and it's not just Biden.
Saw ABC's Jonathan Karl interviewing McAuliffe in Virginia, noting that Biden, Obama, Stacey Abrahms, and others came to the state to campaign for him, asking 'Are you bringing in all those big guns because you think you're in trouble?'
McAuliffe said, not at all, we did the exact same thing in 2013, that's just how it's done.
OOF.
calimary
(81,419 posts)He leans clearly to the right.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)That President Biden has not been in office for a year at this point.
SheltieLover
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)of Democrats for not going far enough, and the other for going too far.
I do get the question, and wish there were a popular outlet that presented news and opinions fairly.
JHB
(37,161 posts)...and it's "This is the day Donald Trump became president".
Today: With a small number of Democrats with ever-changing demands confound the lager party agenda while the Republicans engage in conformity to Party Line on par with the Soviet Politburo, the struggles to pass Biden's agenda are "Biden failures".
mcar
(42,366 posts)They want TFG back so they'll get better ratings. Plus, they have to "both sides" everything.
McKim
(2,412 posts)Get on their comments section and talk back to them! I do it every day. Never forget how the NYT's Michael Gordon and Judith Miller sold the War on Iraq!
paleotn
(17,938 posts)"liberal media." Ironic thing is, unless they act as a wholly owned mouthpiece for the GQP, they'll be labeled "liberal media" by the Reich anyway. It's lose lose for NYT, CNN, etc. when it comes to the Reich, so just report the facts without the spin.
They were very much like this pre-Trump, so I guess we forgot what normal felt and sounded like. I certainly did.
George II
(67,782 posts)....conservative media, "Grey Lady down", referring to their nickname back then. I argued with him vehemently about this.
It looks like I'll have to agree with him now.
PS - I haven't spoken to him since halfway through baby bush's term, wonder how he feels about them now?
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)1. IF a Democrat does something right, MANUFACTURE a scandal to make them look bad
EXAMPLE: Whitewater, Benghazi, Hillary emails
2. IF a Republican does something wrong, WAIT until it's too late and then write something that nobody reads
EXAMPLE: Trump's Russia connections, tax returns
reACTIONary
(5,771 posts).... Maybe we should examine it on its merits, rather than expect nothing other than cheering and huzzahs.