Eric Boehlert: The New York Times needs to stop coddling the Trump mob

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all-white Trump voters get non-stop NYT attention

Biden’s diverse Black and Brown coalition gets completely ignored.

draw yr own conclusions

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The New York Times needs to stop coddling the Trump mob
Fascist foot soldiers
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8:15 AM · Jan 19, 2021

https://pressrun.media/p/the-new-york-times-needs-to-stop

In the wake of the murderous mob that laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the New York Times has produced a wave of coverage about Trump voters. In the hands of Times reporters, the loyalists are generally being portrayed as slightly confused and quirky people who are peddling "conspiracy theories" and "misinformation"; guilty of "warping reality." What they're not portrayed as is being part of a dangerous insurrectionist movement committed to overthrowing an election — foot soldiers at the forefront of the rise of American fascism.

The insurrectionists are overwhelmingly white and they're being treated with kid gloves.

The gentle embrace of the Trump mob comes after the Times flooded its news pages and website for four years with endless updates on Trump voters and how much his white, working class supporters inside Midwest diners love him and will never question him. (Times headlines: "Trump Backers Like His First Draft of a New America"; "Trump’s Fights Are Their Fights. They Have His Back Unapologetically.&quot

The more recent coverage comes across as an attempt by the Times to humanize a radical movement by suggesting that it’s driven by confused people who are simply down on their luck. One article interviewed a truck-driving Trump supporter in Colorado and suggested he was driven to extremism because of "multiple catastrophes of the past year," which turned out to be the truck driver having quit his job because he refused to wear a mask during a pandemic.

In truth, the Trump mob supports brutal, white supremacists groups that fueled the insurrection attack, and his loyalists demand unequivocally that Joe Biden's election should be overturned. They're devoted to shredding democracy in the name of the Trump cult. But that's not at all how they come across at the Times. For one recent piece, the daily photographed a Trump sycophant in pleasing pictures as she posed with her pet in Central Park. Message to readers: She's just like you!

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