Did Rupert Murdoch buy NY Times???

[Budi]

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mayatcontreras
·Apr 9, 2022
"My god. The @nytimes and the rest of legacy media really wants to see Biden fail. What awful framing. Republicans are literally trying to eradicate the LGBTQ + community, end Abortion, Voting, and Civil Rights, but they write this????"

The New York Times
@nytimes
"Republicans see a fresh opening, after the Obama and Trump eras, to peel away some Black voters who polls show are increasingly disenchanted with the Biden" administration. https://nyti.ms/3xeXU6w



@mcrouchpr
They choose the Republicans because of their position on ending democracy, being corrupt, being racist, taking away women’s rights and enrichment of the billionaire class. What black, Hispanic and working poor wouldn’t love that? 🙄

[JohnSJ]

1. The NY Times has been playing both siderisms for some time now.

[question everything]

7. This is what a real unbiased "fair and balanced" outlet should be

[JohnSJ]

11. No. When reporting something good or bad by a particular group that makes news,

bringing in something not related to the current news story about an opposite group is no longer about reporting the news, but making editorial inference

When President Obama was pushing for Green Energy, and the republicans opposed it, The NY Times took the extra step to add to the story that it was the “hubris” of Obama why the republicans to go against it


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html

There are many examples of The NY Times finding the need to do this, and reporting that as a news story, instead of editorializing

[TomCADem]

30. I Think You Are Describing False Equivalency

This is a common logical fallacy that an argument or claim in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not.

Indeed, false equivalency has contributed to the extremism of modern politics, because Republicans will now push even more extreme positions, knowing that many outlets feel obliged to present both views and suggest that the truth is in the now skewed middle.

Just because you have a virologist one side of the equation and a person who is promoting the use of bleach on the other does not mean that the truth with respect to how to prevent or treat COVID is somewhere in the middle of their two positions.

[Historic NY]

2. Maybe everyone should boycott this rag

there are ways to get around their pay wall too. Starve the beast MAGA don't read.

[Budi]

3. Yes. Refuse to support The NY Times just as one refuses FOX News

💙

[pnwmom]

6. This is false equivalence. nt

[Budi]

33. No its not.

It was one big fking media party.
Fortune, name celebrity, & profits soared on the backs of those who are being stripped of rights & demoralized this very day.

Our Federal courts for generations to come have been compromised.

NYTimes' contribution continues to erode American human & civil rights, with zero accountability to the roll they play.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216579813

[pnwmom]

35. Fox News has an extreme right wing slant. Its last moderates have gone.

The New York Times is center-left, with opinion writers on both sides of the aisle.

[Budi]

36. Derriding President Biden, VP Harris, our Democratic Leaders daily.

Minimizing the accomplishments of our President & VP while shoving the RW extremist block in their articles as tho there is some sort of similarity is bullshit & they know it.

They just can't stop profiting from the omg!, they're both the same!.. readers that give them soaring profits.

When they minimize Biden's accomplishments to lift the RW, they sound exactly like FOX.

They do the same disservice to those Americans who are now watching in horror as the once equal status is now severed & dumped in the "who's in & who's not" division of class, race & gender.

Yes. NY Times certainly plays that game, & with no accountability to those Americans who will never see equal status they once knew, because NY Times can not seperate profit from human dignity.

There's no damned difference. The damage is irreparable for generations to come.

[ificandream]

23. The New York Times is not Fox and never will be.

Donald Trump hates it. That's an excellent reason to support it. I'm a subscriber and proud of it.

[PXR-5]

31. Me also

I have been reading the NYT all my life and will probably till the day I die.

I feel it's "fair and balanced" the right paints it as liberal.

[Tommymac]

4. NYT has been like this since at least the Bush2 years...remember yellowcake? Judith Miller?

Nothing to see here...Move On.

[OMGWTF]

20. Remember the "Friedman Units" from the Bush/Cheney War for Fun and Profit?

It was a six-month unit of time that Tom Friedman always told his readers to patiently wait for, and then the war would be a be at a turning point and would somehow be good idea. Cheney The Dick's company, Haliburton, made $39.5 Billion from no-bid contracts. How those two fking war criminals two escaped justice makes me want to puke.

[brooklynite]

5. What's wrong with the article?

Its false (Republicans don't think they can win over African American voters) or its disappointing to liberal readers?

This is an article analyzing the politics of the election. Why assume a "motive"?

[Takket]

13. i guess i don't see what the problem is either........

i've seen a ton of bullshit from the NY Times but if the rethugs think courting black voters in a "winning" strategy for them, why is it the NYT's fault for reporting on it?

[JohnSJ]

16. Is this a editorial from The NY Times, or a factual story?

[brooklynite]

19. Its a factual story in that it reports on Republican assumptions and strategies for November

Just like they've run stories on Democratic assumptions and strategies in past elections.

[JohnSJ]

32. Then it isn't factual, just like their assumption that republicans rejected climate change

because of the hubris of Obama

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Its quotes are highly biased towards Republicans, or Blacks disenchanted with Democrats

even though they are still a minority of Blacks. An analysis of the article:

"dozens of Black Republican House candidates — a record number of them — are reshaping the party’s pitch"

Well, no, they're not. There is no "pitch" apart from "Democrats are awful". The article does not name one thing that these candidates pitch as "different" from before, or from white Republicans.

On the Senate Republican treatment of Ketanji Brown Jackson:

“I think the Black people that this would turn off weren’t voting for Republicans anyway, no matter what,” said Wesley Hunt, a Black Army veteran and a Republican newcomer to politics who is running for a deep-red Texas House seat.

That's not "reshaping the pitch"; that's cynical carelessness about what Blacks actually think. Which is standard for Republicans. But the NYT tries to polish it.

“We are not a monolith,” said Jennifer-Ruth Green, a Black Air Force veteran who is running for Congress in Northwestern Indiana as a Republican. “We see inflation and gas prices. Voters are not stupid.”

Again, toeing the standard Republican line. Then a Black voter says she felt despair about the way KBJ was treated:

But, she said, vaccine mandates cost her a job as a property manager for a housing authority after she refused to get the shot. Stimulus checks kept too many people out of the work force. And President Biden? “He hasn’t been doing anything,” she said. “What has he done?”

And then it reveals she voted for Trump anyway in 2020 (though Hillary in 2016). So she is, frankly, a shit judge of character and reality. And not a typical Black voter.

"But tellingly, Black Republican candidates such as Ms. Green and John James, who is running for a Michigan House seat, are not advertising their party affiliations, just their biographies — a sign that the G.O.P. brand remains toxic in some corners.

And Republican outreach efforts amount to little more than seizing on Black disaffection with Democrats."

Oh, so "reshaping the pitch" was bullshit, after all? But they've buried this admission several paragraphs down. More quotes from a Black vote who is in the minority of Black voters:

“I don’t think Biden’s really even in office,” Robert Sanders scoffed as he cut hair in Gary, echoing criticism from the political right about the 79-year-old president. “I think he’s being escorted through office.”

Then we get some pollsters, who boil down to "it's back to the pre-Obama situation". Finally we get a quote from a Democrat. Closely followed by another Black Republican, who admits

Still, when he talks about what is afflicting local farmers and truckers, Mr. Hunt said, he invariably comes back around to the economy, gas prices and inflation.

Then another Black Republican, talking about ... gas prices and inflation. Then we final circle back to an Indianan Black, who is the closest thing to a typical Black voter mentioned in the whole article, who says

In Gary, Mr. Fleming said he worried about the rising power of the Democratic left wing. But until more Republicans drop their “conspiracy theories” and extreme comments, he said, they weren’t much of an option.

All in all, it is not quoting a representative sample of Black voters. It misleading promoted Black Republicans as "reshaping the party's pitch". And it tries to normalize the Republicans character assassination of KBJ as "politics as usual". They said she was pro-pedophile and pro-al Qaeda, for fuck's sake!

Yeah, that's such a shit and biased article that a motive is needed - more than "oh shit, we've got to fill up the paper".

[gldstwmn]

29. And yet they are running candidates like Herschel Walker who is outpolling Raphael Warnock.

It's very disturbing to me.

[aggiesal]

8. After last week's hearings ...

You think this still applies?

... to peel away some Black voters who polls show are increasingly disenchanted.

This poll must have been taken before the hearings, because I can't see how any Black voters would vote (R) after KBJ Confirmation Hearings.

[LakeArenal]

26. Because there are misogynists in every group.

[babylonsister]

9. Here's Eric Boehlert in February highlighting

how the NY Times isn't playing fair by giving the gop free reign to spread misinformation...I am happy to see this honest criticism. Someone has to do it.



NY Times loves hyping GOP, ignoring Dems
Gaslighting
Eric Boehlert
Feb 9


Eager to document the latest right-wing attack on science, the New York Times recently published a long piece about Republicans making Dr. Anthony Fauci a target of their midterm campaign wrath. Treating the despicable behavior as a little more than a “smart” campaign strategy, the Times ended up quoting no less than fourteen Republicans without bothering to quote a single Democrat to give a counter-balancing view, or put the GOP’s outlandish conduct in perspective.

The Times’ massive omission has become standard among Beltway journalists in recent years, as they feverishly detail whatever phony outrage Republicans are cooking up. Time and again reporters simply hand over the reins to the GOP, let them spread their misinformation, gently suggest to news consumers that the allegations may not be true, and then shut out Democratic voices, denying them an opportunity to weigh in on the political attacks being levied.

The Times’ Fauci piece, which came complete with a cliched interview of Trump voters conducted inside a Midwestern diner, was just the most recent and egregious example of this misguided, one-sided coverage.

more...

https://pressrun.media/p/why-does-the-ny-times-love-hyping?s=r

[Botany]

10. In 2016 how many times did the NY Times sell the false story about Hillary's emails And when they...

.... finally had to do a correction on it they buried that to a short blib inside the paper.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/jeffrey-toobin-clinton-emails-053484



This graph is not just for the NY Times.

[dawg]

12. Republicans call the New York Times, and other media, biased for reporting truths ...

that refute the Party's lies.

Many of these outlets then respond by beninding over backwards to amplify as many Republican points of view as possible in order to disprove the claims of bias. But this results in de facto favoritism towards the Republican Party even from the so-called "liberal" media.

A much better approach would be to report the news factually, political spin from either side be damned.

Editorially (on the editorial page), the papers should take whatever positions their editiorial board actually believes. No sense in pandering to the other side.

[Initech]

14. It's like they're cheerleading a MAGA takeover in November.

Fuck.

[Cha]

15. I would imagine that Black Voters

are thrilled with PJB's pick for SCOTUS and Confirmation of Justice Brown Jackson.. just like we all are!

Oh yeah.. & the NYT can fuck the fuck off.

💙💛

[Fritz Walter]

18. They should change their motto

...to "All the News that's SHIT to print."

[brooklynite]

21. Yawn...

Never understood the value of petty insults.

[ificandream]

22. Agreed. It's the type of simple simon logic the Repughs do. Sad to see it here.

[kacekwl]

24. I don't get it, maybe someone can tell me why

a black person especially a woman would vote for a Republican. Hispanic people also but I think abortion is a big issue for them. I could be wrong being white but I don't know of anything Republicans have done for them or me for that matter.

[Celerity]

28. Many are forced birthers, hate LGBTQ, and buy into the 'as little taxes as possible' bollocks

[peppertree]

25. Not sure about Muckdock - but I recall reading Paul Singer had bought a stake

with the money he weaseled out of Argentina in 2016.

[gldstwmn]

27. I left the NY Times out of my reading a while ago.

Maga Haberman was the beginning of the end for me.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. The NYT is a very biased source-Front page for hit story on Hillary and A15 for Don Jr's treason

I am so glad that I dropped by subscription to this wrag

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The NYT held DOJ story for several months and then only reported State Department story on page A16
The NYT is a wrag

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[Budi]

37. K & R. Thank You!

And here we are, choking on our once granted rights to our female autonomy, for starters.
Our Federal courts are fked for generations.
And NY Times wrings their hands placating us, but not really enough to take a fking solid stand against the perpetrators.

Nope, NY Times plays the readers as tho the RW & President Biden are somehow no different.
They have stepped down on human equality just to elevate the RW, the fringe.

It is obvious.