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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT f*cked up bigly.
In yesterdays paper, @superwusterwrote an opinion piece accusing Secretary Clinton of trading in conspiracy theories, based off of comments that she didnt make.
I too am tired of talking about this, but lets again set the record straight. HRC speculated that the only way the GOP is going to win in states where Trump cant hit a 50% majority is to 1) Suppress the vote, as they do widely and routinely, & 2) Bank on the 3rd party spoiler.
And yes, she said that certain fringe members of the Democratic and Green parties are assets to the Russians. Well guess what folks? Thats true. She didnt call anyone a spy, as some are wrongly asserting for their own political gain.
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But on the same day that the NYT buries the end of the email saga on A16 after years of breathless coverage, & 2 days after they correct their own story about Secretary Clintons comments, this warrants some pushback.
Link to tweet
More at the twitter link.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)NYT has hated the Clintons for over 25 years.
unblock
(52,253 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)That's actually shocking.
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)NYT does not want to beknown as the voice of _______, [name your left constituency].
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... is blasting that to high heaven like they did Clinton's emails.
The NYT doesn't like the Clinton's we get it, but that shit has got us Trump and they continue to this day.
This is some shit here, NYT needs to straighten up and fly right.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)Nothing.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)has been going on for I don't know how long. I haven't been studying it that long. For years, though.
But it seems to me that sometimes, especially starting autumn 2016, their insidiously negative slant that matches the MSM usual becomes dangerously blatant misreporting, and I wonder what is triggering it. Approaching the 2016 election as a reason for the Halloween article claiming the FBI found nothing in Trump-Russia was obvious. But how about all the events since that have become almost usual, like these recent attempts at everything from normalizing Trump's economic problems to this?
It's like protecting Trump/Repubs (and/or themselves?) is more important to people in power than protecting the NYT's reputation.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)HRC never mentions her by name, but TG responded.
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)their non-stop attempts to undermine every justice movement in my lifetime (anti-war movement, Women's rights, Civil rights, Occupy Wall St) to normalize Trump's Fascism is proof. We're talking television network news and major newspapers like the NY Times.
dmr
(28,347 posts)How many more decades of this shit does she have to endure?