Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump

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46. Agreed all around, except that NYT gets used by the right

NYT often tries to play both sides, and especially their headline writers do.

The right knows this and they can manipulate the Times and other centrist publications by seeding the media with extreme right wing craziness. Then the NYT talks about the middle which has been pulled to the right. The NYT also often gets caught reporting what people and journalists say, not reporting the truth. That's what happened with Hillary's emails and Benghazi: "GOP said...". "CNN is reporting...". America would be better served if the Times reported what they think is important whatever agenda-driven partisans say.

Paul Krugman in the op-ed pages has been saying this since about 2000. Finally NYT used the word lie to describe GOP words in Sept 2016, a decade and a half later. Does the news side even read their own op-eds?


P.s. I'd say NYT is center-right on a global scale. They are surprisingly hawkish, esp. on Israel related issues (and I'm Jewish and pro-Israel.)