Help me research a bonus episode! What are the most egregious articles from the NYT from this election campaign so far? Not op-eds, traditional news or analysis pieces.
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i don’t know if it rises to the top exactly but their (non)coverage of the 165pg smith filing just now is super-infuriating. buried deep on the homepage (gone entirely now) while wapo had it as the lead story, this “four takeaways” attempt at “nothing to see here” 😤 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/politics/takeaways-jack-smith-trump-brief.html
Just the election? Darn. Because so many lightly misogynist pieces scolding women. The lifestyle articles are a parade of 'who do women think they are sometimes?' It somehow fits with the political vibe--just 'PFFFT these people must be kept DOWN.' Very British vibe. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/style/women-fashion-age-appropriate.html
Was my first thought! And, in general, it’s insane that they were doing weeks of explicit/implicit concern trolling about THE PRESIDENTS brain being mush and have completely forgotten since he’s not the candidates, and is just doing his day job which is being THE PRESIDENT.
Multiple NYT politics reporters in traditional news (including the reporter of the recent egregious sanewashing comparison of Trump's rambling to "James Joyce") got their start questionably under Maureen Dowd in NYT opinion, according to everyone involved https://www.nytco.com/press/shawn-mccreesh-rejoins-the-times/
Those oddly numerous instances when the New York Times has diner interviewed "undecided voters" who turned out to be actual Republican operatives but the NYT either didn't do a basic Google search check of them or purposely used them to push a narrative they wanted about Democrats
Also NYT’s Jonathan Weisman incredibly racist history as a senior editor and before that @cingraham.bsky.social pointed out he referred to Obama as “much more white than black” when he worked at WaPo in 2008
nuzzi's conflict ridden hit piece on biden should be mentioned. it might not stand out for egregiousness, but is excellent fodder for letting peter rif.
https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3l5flj5o42f2v this one spiked my blood pressure. "An explicit embrace of executive power and police force in the interest of imposing order, or suspending the rule of law to address various societal ills."
Also, I don’t have an example handy, but the constant “XYZ happened. Will it matter?” is inane, not the point, and not news. If the standard for newsworthiness is its capacity to get MAGA to drop Trump, there would be no news.
I do not need an entire press corps of Holden Caulfields.
NYTimes still playin the “Kamala too vague” hits in the end of September *after* she released her 82 page plan and while accepting Trump’s “immigrants go bye bye” plan as sufficiently detailed to cure ailments from wages, to housing, to crime, to human mortality.
It's more what they don't mention. Multiple sources (including the Wash Post) mentioned on Tuesday that his speeches that day were full of crazy shit, and that he looked old and tired. You wouldn't know that if you were reading the Times. And no real coverage at all about Trump's clear aging.
Oh also this subthread, which I call "Does the NYT not have a clipping service to see if they've ever run an article about the same person which could contradict their current reporting in a horrifyingly embarrassing way?"
I went looking for this one too. I think it demonstrates how the NYT conceives of its centrality in election narratives (even as it destructively pretends at neutrality and flogs its racehorse coverage). Why else would casual speculation from contributors (some of whom are great) be worth printing?
But what about the decisions that lead to which opinions to run - like the guy who wrote “don’t vote” on the 4th of July and it turns out he voted in multiple recent elections.
i know you haven’t had any guests yet but it always feels like @jamisonfoser.bsky.social has a treasure trove of examples of the nytimes’ failures, he’d be great to bring into that conversation
Also, unless it counts as an op-ed, the "roundtable" they did to rank all of the possible candidates in a contested convention after it was already apparent that everyone was just going to endorse Kamala
For me it's the lack of pieces in the wake of the Jack Smith indictment a few days ago more than any individual piece. It's very interesting (not really) on what the media decides in a controversy worthy of daily articles and what isn't
This one is up there, especially because the NYT treats Trump's housing plan to deport millions of people like a serious policy proposal instead of an ethnic cleansing program to free up Lebensraum.
"Former President Donald J. Trump mused on Sunday about “one really violent day” as an answer to what he has described as a plague of unchecked property crime in American cities."
I follow someone on TikTok called Artistlike who has been making good videos about this - particularly the Daily podcast. I highly recommend checking them out, LOTS of material there
8/9/24. Just after Walz announcement. NYT trying to bait Harris into an interview w/ scare tactics “voters need to know detailed econ policy plans” but article framed on how Trump will blow up national debt. “What is Harris’s response?” It’s a trap!
Rather, “we don’t know Harris’s response” framed as a crisis for the voters. As if the NYT was neutral and not super angry about the candidate passing on an open ended sit down interview. As a voter, I don’t think NYT politics team is asking the questions I most want answered.
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I do not need an entire press corps of Holden Caulfields.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-msnbc-interview-takeaways.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/business/media/elon-musk-politics-twitter.html
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Or approving that Sorkin nonsense.
The great thing is that they’ve corrected the spelling of her name but not the lies she told to get in the paper
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/elections/conservative-moms-for-liberty-trump.html
https://bsky.app/profile/positivesubway.bsky.social/post/3l37lh4h7g72u
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/04/us/elections/2024-election-undecided-voters.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/upshot/election-issues-swings-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
"Former President Donald J. Trump mused on Sunday about “one really violent day” as an answer to what he has described as a plague of unchecked property crime in American cities."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/trump-property-crime-crackdown.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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8/9/24. Just after Walz announcement. NYT trying to bait Harris into an interview w/ scare tactics “voters need to know detailed econ policy plans” but article framed on how Trump will blow up national debt. “What is Harris’s response?” It’s a trap!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/business/economy/housing-plan-harris-trump.html