Doublestandardgate - NYT's unacceptable coverage of Mamdani labeled "Pathetic. A scandal in itself"
On Thursday, the Times published a report citing hacked Columbia documents that revealed the New York Democratic mayoral nominee identified as "Black or African American" on his college application. Zohran Mamdani, who is of South Asian heritage, was born in Uganda, where his family had lived for approximately a century, according to the article.
The Tennessee Holler, a progressive news outlet, wrote on X, "So the @nytimes tried to slime Zohran using hacked materials given to them by an admitted race scientist/eugenicist who they kept anonymous even though he is publicly known — about races he checked on an application to a school he didn't get into? Pathetic. A scandal in itself."
During last year's presidential campaign, the Times, along with other publications, were given a leaked dossier on JD Vance, then-Republican vice presidential nominee, compiled by the Trump campaign. But the paper chose not to publish its contents. That decision stood in contrast to its approach in 2016, when the Times reported on hacked campaign emails from John Podesta, who was serving as Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman at the time.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-times-mamdani-article-healy-responds-2094926
I don't really care what box Zohran Mamdani checked on a college application, I think the NYT should be focusing on the scandal of politicians saying we have the greatest healthcare system in the world even though we lead in industrialized countries in women dying in childbirth.
The NYT wants us talking about the former so we're not talking about the latter.
And they would sell out their standards to make it happen.