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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Gregg Gonsalves

      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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      Gregg GonsalvesVerified account @gregggonsalves
      What @maureendowd doesn't get: lots of the criticism of @nytimes lately isn't about political purity, but NYT's inability to rise to the occasion of the rise of @realDonaldTrump. 1/
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2019

          8. No gods, no masters, no Maureen Dowd.

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        1. rich graham ૐ‏ @edisn 28 Jul 2019
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          I wouldnt know because its behind a nazi paywall, and if i were to pay nazis it would make me a nazi. but one thing i do know is that the story doesnt mean what it says it means and therefore it is a lie. I unlike the american press, once took a journalism class

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        1. Trofe‏ @SenTrofe 28 Jul 2019
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          If you believe the press has the power to shape public opinion, then them reporting an important story isn't enough on its own. They and other news outlets could have spent weeks covering it nonstop

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        1. meakulka‏ @meakulka 28 Jul 2019
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          The fault is the lack of substantive investigative journalism BEFORE the election in favor of clickbait and easy quotes.

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        2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 28 Jul 2019
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          That Times story was the product of eighteen months of reporting by several people, a massive project begin pointlessly late, in Feb 2017. And even then, having reported it, the Times basically dropped it in a week. Compare all of that to Her Emails. And fuck the New York Times.

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        3. Keath Mayes‏ @KeathMayes 28 Jul 2019
          Replying to @warren__terra @HeerJeet

          Exactly. Over and over again with emails. But no follow through on taxes.

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        1. Cooper‏ @TweetsofCooper 28 Jul 2019
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          It doesn't help that the times wrapped this story up in weeks of softballing white supremacy

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        1. Rob Pollard‏ @robpollard45 28 Jul 2019
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          It was too late. Where was this story in 2015/2016? The NYT should have had decades of contacts & info to act on once Trump was the candidate. Trump is from New York! Instead the NYT spent their time "but her emails" and Clinton Cash.

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