The Times ran a putrid Sienna poll a few days ago that was rightly criticized here and elsewhere. Then this morning they misleadingly portrayed a solid GDP and inflation report as bad news, and got so slammed for it they changed the headline. Now, their right wing headline writer says this: “Polls in Four Swing Districts Show G.O.P's Strength in Midterms Republicans are poised to retake Congress this fall in races shaped by forces that are beyond the red and blue divide, Times/Siena College polling shows.” www.nytimes.com/...
First-off, the poll has a plus or minus range of more than 5 percent, so is basically worthless in interpreting anything other than a landslide election. And, the poll actually shows Dem candidates ahead or tied in all four races, including one in a landslide and another in a currently R district.
The article - which is co-authored by Shane Goldmacher, a former Politico writer who covered the GOP, the same person who wrote the earlier Sienna poll article and a follow up piece claiming a ‘red wave’ is coming - is filled with analysis that is conclusory at best. Even so, the headline is a right wing hack job that goes further than even what the article stretches.
The Times got a new Executive Editor this spring, Joe Kahn, the son of a founder of Staples, who by all accounts is himself massively wealthy. thewhyaxis.substack.com/…
Under its new plutocratic leadership, it’s pretty clear the Times is devolving even more into another right leaning corporate media hack job. The publishers of the Pentagon Papers would be turning in their graves
UPDATE: This morning they change the headline to make it less horrid, even while still saying in the article that the GOP is ‘poised’ to win the House. This happens again and again. Headline is right wing framing, then someone tones it down maybe after further adult review. What is wrong with these people?