James Fallows: Do we detect any subtle difference in the way these two news breaks were played?

[Dennis Donovan]

James Fallows
My hypothesis: Any historian of our era will say that the Jack Smith dossier about Donald Trump is 1000x more important than HRC emails found on Anthony Weiner's cell phone.

My question: Do we detect any subtle difference in the way these two news breaks were played?


11:35 AM · Oct 3, 2024

NYT editorial board needs to be called out about this at every turn.

Link to tweet

[FSogol]

1. k & r n/t

[UpInArms]

2. Not even subtle

The entire page was devoted to the making of a “scandal”.

To put a minor headline with a smaller story almost under the fold is just minimizing.

Assfucks … that is all they are. So glad I took my money away from the 7 years ago.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Subtle differences? No.

Glaring bias? Yes.

[malaise]

4. Important

K & R

[Warpy]

5. The NYT is the paper of record for the movers, shakers, and socialites of NYC

If you're not in one of those groups, give it a miss.

I always did.

[Bev54]

6. And Donald Trump, he doesn't fit in any of those categories either.

[Warpy]

10. He certainly did in the past, he was a builder and buyer of

oversized and crass real estate inhabited by the wealthy.

[Bev54]

19. Not for many years now, doesn't even live in NY

But they are still carrying his water

[markodochartaigh]

12. I find the NYT very enjoyable,

well, the daily Wordle, that is.

[Warpy]

14. I could buy the magazine, which often had cryptic acrostics back in the day

and the Review of Books separately at Boston newsstands the day after the papers that contained them came out.

[markodochartaigh]

17. Fortunately the Wordle is free.

Not having a parrot, I have no use for the paper itself.

[Warpy]

21. It would also come in handy in the bad old days of nothing but clay cat litter

although even their paper was less absorbent than that used by The Boston Globe. Still, it did the job if I didn't get around to changing the litter quite in time.

One of my flatmates was a tabloid journalist who combed several east coast papers a day for buried stories.

[Bev54]

20. I do their connections each day but have never paid them

For any subscription

[TomCADem]

7. Trump and his allies once cheered hacked materials. No longer, now that they say he's a target

This is not the first time you have seen this double standard. Trump used to happily cheer for US adversaries to hack his political opponents and the media had no qualms about releasing the hacked materials. However, now that his campaign is targeted, not only is the Trump campaign opposing disclosure, but media organizations are happy to sit on the hacked materials.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-hacking-iran-769d8411d9a13ef9a0e039c0b6c3b032

Donald Trump was once a cheerleader of publicizing hacked materials. “Russia, if you’re listening,” Trump said during a press conference in his 2016 presidential run, when Hillary Clinton’s deleted personal emails were a hot topic, “I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

“I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” he said back then.

That changed when Trump’s latest presidential campaign declared this weekend it had been hacked by Iran. “Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want,” Steven Cheung, the campaign’s communications director, said in a statement on Saturday announcing that the campaign had been hacked.

The campaign has not responded to questions about why its view on hacking changed, including a query on Monday from The Associated Press. But its new position is a striking change from 2016, when Trump heartily embraced the Russian hacking of his opponent Clinton’s aides and the Democratic National Committee.

[CBHagman]

8. If you"re not following James Fallows on social media, please consider starting.

For decades he's been doing masterful coverage of the worst flaws of U.S. media.

[Paladin]

9. Why would we expect anything better from the NYT at this point? (nt)

[mountain grammy]

11. I will die mad about this

[pansypoo53219]

13. still pimping the fat gollum even tho his his minions are dwindling.

[Farmer-Rick]

26. Yup

They are catapulting the propaganda for Trump. All the corporate media is. This is why people are voting for the idiot at all. Without this propaganda.....Trump would be lucky to get 600 votes and all of them from the filthy-rich.

But when you rig a capitalist economy to feed all the national wealth and resources only to the the already wealthy, then only the filthy-rich corporate owners can afford to catapult the propaganda.

[Keepthesoulalive]

15. Thank you

When we call out the Times for bias there are always people accusing us of being in an info silo. But the Times is constantly showing us they are in the tank for La Donald.

[calimary]

16. Looks like a "we hate uppity women like Hillary" slant to me.

She just WON’T fit the “profile”.

This longtime Hillary fan says “GOOD!!!!!” And “more power to her!”

[AKwannabe]

24. I won't fit the profile either!

No one should fit a profile.
But there is a helluvalotof profiling going on!

[liberal N proud]

18. Must have been a slow news day in 2016

Not really, the there is no subtle difference, it a starke contrast that lays bare the media bias.

[ffr]

22. The 14th rehash of the same story in 2020 gets top billing, even a negative quote from TSF

Whereas, a crime against the U.S. and every citizen in 2024 by a man is treated as an also ran news story.



The New York Times doing Vladimir Putin's bidding.

[Cha]

23. "the Jack Smith dossier about Donald Trump is 1000x more important than HRC emails found on Anthony Weiner's cell phon

TY & James Fallows

[uponit7771]

25. FUCK them

[cutroot]

27. They are the national enquirer with nicer clothes