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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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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We can ask Congress to commit to their constitutional obligation to impose checks & balances on this president. We can also ask
@NYTimes to stop sucking up to Trump for access. We can also ask journalists to stop transcribing Trump's words & report the news. Not an either/or.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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But the Times itself is partly culpable in its stories not getting traction. It doesn't follow up or push the narrative. Especially in its terrible opinion page.
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They could’ve just cut one or two of the articles about Alan Dershowitz not getting invited to fun parties and used that space to re-emphasize their reporting on Trump’s wrongdoing.
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I mean, at some point didn’t we have all the evidence we needed that
#Hillary used a private server and the#DNC’s private e-mails were occasionally intemperate? The#NYTimes can hammer a point when it wants to. With#Trump, it doesn’t want to.#journalismhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1155481657517977601 … -
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#Hillary, we know how#journalism sets a narrative: by beating it to death. If the#NYTimes wanted to bring down#Trump, it could. And it ought to want to, because he is destroying the republic. There is no neutrality between good and bad.#corruptionpic.twitter.com/8u1qWcqxbB
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The procedural responsibility is Congress' but the energetic push for its engagement is popular, and requires a disciplined media ecosystem that doesn't willfully allow its news cycle based attention span to be manipulated by bad actors. The Times and others have failed at this.
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You can construct a "lawlessness" narrative for any President, depending on how far you dig and which section of the now all-pervasive federal code & regulations you wish concentrate on.
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