Eric Boehlert: NY Times loves hyping GOP, ignoring Dems

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/why-does-the-ny-times-love-hyping

NY Times loves hyping GOP, ignoring Dems
Gaslighting
Eric Boehlert
33 min ago


Eager to document the latest right-wing attack on science, the New York Times recently published a long piece about Republicans making Dr. Anthony Fauci a target of their midterm campaign wrath. Treating the despicable behavior as a little more than a “smart” campaign strategy, the Times ended up quoting no less than fourteen Republicans without bothering to quote a single Democrat to give a counter-balancing view, or put the GOP’s outlandish conduct in perspective.

The Times’ massive omission has become standard among Beltway journalists in recent years, as they feverishly detail whatever phony outrage Republicans are cooking up. Time and again reporters simply hand over the reins to the GOP, let them spread their misinformation, gently suggest to news consumers that the allegations may not be true, and then shut out Democratic voices, denying them an opportunity to weigh in on the political attacks being levied.

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The article is filled with Trump sycophants who call Fauci a “petty tyrant,” a “ridiculous tyrant,” denounce “Faucism,” claim he’s “playing God,” and brand him “one of the biggest frauds in American history.” At the ubiquitous Ohio diner, one Trump voter announced Fauci has “violated the Nuremberg Code,” the set of research ethics developed after the Holocaust, and that the Covid vaccine “is nothing but an experiment!”
This is all part of the media’s long-running obsession with amplifying Republicans over Democrats. During a three-month span in 2018 when Trump was president, the network Sunday morning news shows featured 33 right-leaning guests, compared to 6 left-leaning guests, according to a Media Matters study.

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If you think because there was a Republican president and a Republican Congress that’s why the Sunday shows booked so many Republican guests, think again. Back when Obama was in office, the same Sunday shows were still booking more Republican guests than Democratic ones.

As for the Times’ misguided Fauci piece, any reporter in 2022 who finds themselves inside an Ohio diner interviewing Trump supporters should stop and ask, why?

[dalton99a]

1. We need more articles exploring the psyche and needs of Trump and Trump voters

We do need to REALLY understand them before we can say anything negative about them

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I had a commie prof once, called NYT "chief capitalist spokesman in the press"

I don't think I'd go that far, but anyone who thinks it doesn't represent business interests is deluded.

[JT45242]

3. Look at who owns the papers... and who the owners give money to

Someone who worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer said in a lecture -- newspapers are not left-leaning. Their owners are all super rich men who hang out with other super rich guys.

He then said that the real editor of the paper was Carl Lindner -- the uber -rich republican who once owned the Reds. He was the de facto editor because the paper dare not offend him and his advertising dollars for the Reds, the bank, UDF, that he owned. They did a piece on Chiquita mstreating its workers and he got every big ad buyer to threaten to drop all their ads. The paper printed a etraction of a true story.

Follow the money and you will get to the truth.

The guy also said that many reporters were extremely liberal and especially those who worked on inevstigative reporting. But what stories you could work on and which ones could get published always had an eye to the ownership and their friends who bought the ads.

[SergeStorms]

5. It's the same with all news media.

Republicans crying about the "liberal media" are a joke. They know who controls it, but just want to plant the seeds of disinformation doubt with the public. And it works.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Only in this country and with the Republican Party

could a health official who has served the country for DECADES under Presidents of BOTH parties suddenly be at the center of a massive conspiracy to............something? I'm not even sure what they're accusing him of because they're all over the place and it's all nonsensical and I can't believe that they're going to base a midterm election strategy around him.

[Mr. Sparkle]

6. Their hatred for Hillary Clinton is off the scale.