1. This is a good thread, well worth reading, explaining why people are mad at the Times. But there's a flip side to this: people expect too much of the Times (and journalism in general). They want the Times to save them from Trump. That's what's fuelling the rage.https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1155465927703629826 …
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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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No, they never screw up they always say exactloy what the nazis tell them to say and they wage a war of lies against anyone who points out how one sided and wrong they are. They destroyed this country out of spite for emails :)
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The NYT also sold itself as a savior right after the election. They fed the narrative you are rightly criticizing as inaccurate.
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I may be guilty of expecting what you say. That may be because of how often Trump attacks the NYT and calls it fake news. Perhaps by not "helping to bring down Trump" they are not overreacting to his insults. I don't know.
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I think the main crux of the criticism of the NYT is not that they sometimes make mistakes - all papers do - It's that they don't seem to ever learn anything from them. The RW has so 'worked the refs' with their criticism of the NYT that its tilted their outlook on reality.
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“the access journalism model lead to complicity with the powers-that-be.” Yes. That means we’re talking about the paper of record being complicit with a white supremacist (and his regime) who is a danger to non-white ppl - that’s the failing.
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