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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      1. So, let's think about the New York Times a little bit, and the increasing criticism its getting from liberals & leftists.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      2. I like ribbing the Times as much as anybody but I'm also inclined to cut them some slack because covering the Trump era is hard to cover for a paper like the Times.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      3. People think of the Times a liberal paper. That's a mistake, although of course it employs some liberals & supports Democrats. The Times is really an establishment newspaper above all else.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      4. It's not just the Times is very attentive to opinions of USA elite but also, more deeply, it assumes that the elite of center right & center left is fundamentally rational.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      5. It takes a lot for Times to break with elite consensus -- something one the order of the Pentagon Papers showing government for years lied about Vietnam.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      6. But even under Nixon, Times instinct is to try to act as mediator between competing elite factions. When Agnew complained about press bias, Times responded by hiring Safire.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      7. Trump has disoriented the Times because he's a figure occupying an elite position (he's the President) but always deriding elite pretences of consensus and cordiality ("the failing NY Times")

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

      8. With Trump & Trumpism, the Times finds itself forced to cover a clownish figure & extremist movement with a set of journalistic tics designed for a world where elite centrist consensus dominates.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          9. The disorientation of figuring out how to deal with Trump/Trumpism causes the Times to repeatedly make missteps, usually in direction of normalizing.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          10. A big problem the Times has is they don't know how to cover the white nationalist right, so they keep giving columns to Never Trump conservatives, who are marginal to GOP & USA politics.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          11. I understand why Times won't give a column to a Pat Buchanan or a Ann Coulter. But they should at least be reporting on politics as if these are major GOP voices. Because in fact they are.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Henry Farrell

          12. This is a good formulation, which I agree with:https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/963616769150726145 …

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          Henry FarrellVerified account @henryfarrell
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          My take is slightly different. That the NYT sees itself as a paper of record responsible to some general notion of the American public. But now, there is no American public. Instead there are American publics w. radically different realities, & consequently impossible to straddle
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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          13. One possible silver lining is the break-up of consensus politics should allow Times to be more open to voices on left as well as right -- one sign of that is hiring @michelleinbklyn as columnist.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          14. If I were editing the Times (ho ho ho) I'd get someone whose job it is to follow white nationalist right & report regularly on what they are thinking. Stop pretending that reasonable Never Trump conservatives are the real GOP.

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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          15. Also, I'd open up Times op ed to the more paleo-cons and also people on the Democratic Party left (feminists, BLM, DSA etc).

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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          16. For more on the Times & its troubles, this is an excellent piece by my colleague @GrahamVysehttps://newrepublic.com/article/146828/lefts-war-new-york-times …

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        10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Michael Calderone

          17. Well, that didn't last very long:https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/963612619163750400 …

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          NYT and Quinn Norton go their “separate ways,” per statement from editorial page editor James Bennet pic.twitter.com/bE7cr6ZQIN
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        11. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Feb 2018

          18. Honestly, James Bennet & Bari Weiss should just call me. I can really advise them on how better to cover fractured opinions in Trump era America.

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        12. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2018

          19. The Times both hired & fired Quinn Norton too quickly. If they had researched her background more, they could've offered her a more appropriate position & wouldn't have been blindsided backlash.

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        13. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2018

          20. Hiring Norton to write about tech under her own byline makes sense (she's good at it & you can separate her dubious opinions from her writing for paper). Having her write anonymous editorials was wrong choice.

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