and knew what they were up to -- then and still are now. Dean Baquet, the managing editor who presided over this era, just handed things over to the managing editor last month. The NYT, along with the other RW powers, the Russians etc, and LW hostiles, was working to defeat Democrats by pushing disheartening disinformation about Democrats and puffing up Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, etc, to the left -- to splinter away enough votes to throw the nation to the Republicans. (For those who don't remember, the strategy worked. Again.)
During that election I used to open the NYT on-line political section and count the large number of negative-sounding headlines along the left margin about Democrats (seldom less than 6 or 7 EVERY DAY, almost all about Hillary), also the number that puffed a phony Bernie Sanders horse race even though experts KNEW that by the numbers he couldn't possibly win and was losing more with every primary, including those he won.
And of course the usual missing news and overall more positive (than HRC!) tone about tRump. On Halloween just before election day the NYT published their Big Blatant In-Our-Faces Lie that the Mueller investigation into tRump-Russia hadn't found anything and suggested that it was about to close down.
Btw, after the number of still-available electors fell below the number Sanders would have to win ALL of to stay in the race, the NYT headline was that Sanders got a big boost! from winning the last state the day before (he technically got a majority of the vote). Of course he'd been promising all along, if he lost the popular vote, to get the superdelegates to take the nomination away from the choice of Democratic voters and throw it to him, but the NYT barely if ever mentioned that interesting promise. Maybe they thought it didn't fit their strategy.)
Below that, in smaller font than all the other articles, was a headline for the electors, which readers had to open to learn what it was about -- that Sanders could no longer get the rest of the 270 electors needed to win because there weren't enough left. (It didn't confess they'd known this day was coming for months, just made it official.)
Lot more where this comes from. The NYT. Not that plenty of others weren't doing the same, including the AP, CNN, and MSNBC.
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