2. With the plot of All the President's Men playing in the back of our head, many people expected quality journalism to bring down a lawless president. That hasn't happened, and the frustration has led to an over-attention to failures at the Times.
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3. Does the Times sometimes screw up? Sure. Does the access journalism model lead to complicity with the powers-that-be. Yep. Does reflexive both-sides-ism lead to white-washing of Trump's unique threats & lawlessness? Sure. Is centrism reluctant to call racism by its name. Yes.
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4. But all the flaws in the Times have to set against the often ground-breaking journalism which should be immensely damaging to Trump, like the report on his history of tax evasion. If this has failed to have an impact, that's not fault of Times but of political system.
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5. This Times story is a real blockbuster which should have caused immense damage to Trump. The fact it didn't is the fault of the political system: of GOP complicity & Dem congress slow-walking investigations. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html …
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6. We have all the evidence of Trump's lawlessness that we need (thank in part to the Times & other news outlets). The responsibility for holding Trump in check is with congress, which can be influenced by public agitation. So that's where the focus of energy should be.
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7. This is the big lesson of the Trump era. No big institutional force will save the world from Trump. Not the GOP. Not "the grown ups" in administration. Not the Deep State. Not Mueller. Not Pelosi. Not the Times. The only option is political organization and agitation.
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The Times has featured some wretched journalism of world-changing consequence for decades at least.
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No. They just want the Times to stop growing gasoline on the fire.
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I suppose "not actively collaborating with Trump" us too much to ask
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