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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLook, I found excerpts from all the letters from when the NY Times set aside an entire day and page
to pro Obama voters.
Surely you remember that, don't you?
Here's some excerpts.....
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malaise
(269,063 posts)Get thee to the greatest page because
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Fuck 'em.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)They're responding. Like Obama providing his Birth Certificate, instead of challenging Trump to go fuck himself.
It won't help, because accurate reporting is the enemy of Trumpism.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)book NYT just couldnt help themselves from promoting? They fact checking these letters at all? Doubt it.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)I remember Judith Miller's stenography on the Iraq War run-up, as well.
But that's not the direction the bias is accused of going, as you probably know. Many times they bend over backwards to appear fair to the GOP, and they get taken for a ride. On the whole, they lean Centrist/Liberal, particularly on the Editorial Page.
What they're doing here is similar to NPR's (infuriating) approach to GOP Pols. Give Trumpist voices a forum. Perform objectivity. Show the Liberal Cognoscenti how the Great Unwashed think. Create a record of fairness they can point to.
I think they know they're in a War against Authoritarianism, and they're as much a target as CNN or the WaPo.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)I have a rage for all the people in and out of government that promoted that God awful war.
Peace
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)and the toothless dumbasses from Dumbfuckistan, AmeriKKKa would still throw bricks through their windows and threaten their families with violence for the 1 day they didn't get.
It's like trying to pet a scorpion in the hopes it won't sting you.
Ohiogal
(32,010 posts)because The Deplorables don't read the Times anyway.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)local papers carry NYT stories the next day. my Dad reads them in the Cincy paper.
RussBLib
(9,020 posts)if they are telling the truth, that is
some value