I didn’t mean that the NYT is a Republican paper. I meant that the NYT has been carrying water for Biden’s general election opponent. Perhaps it’s better couched as chaos agency rather than partisanship. In any case, @Derleth posted the “QED” over in the State of the Union thread. I’ll repost a bit here:
Of course, the Times is going to beat the “Biden Old” drum for as long as it can because its owner wants it to
What does that mean — practically speaking — to the editors and reporters who work for him? In my view, the message is clear:
One: You will earn my displeasure if you warn people too forcefully about the possible end to democracy at the hands of a deranged insurrectionist.
And two: You prove your value to me by trolling our liberal readers.
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We’re asking the Times to recognize that it isn’t living up to its own standards of truth-telling and independence when it obfuscates the stakes of the 2024 election, covers up for Trump’s derangement, and goes out of its way to make Biden look weak.
Reporting that Trump is a racist fanatic who would turn a democratic government into his personal fiefdom is not crusading, it’s journalism.
Reporting (endlessly) that Biden is old without noting that Trump is deranged is not “independent” journalism, it’s just bad journalism.