The NY Times still doesn’t get it Not after its 2016 email obsession and disastrous “No clear link” article credulously transcribing lies by rogue FBI agents and Roger Stone.
Not even after in 2019 credulously headlined “Cloud Lifted” based on the obviously fraudulent Barr memo on the Mueller Report
Nope. The Times still believes the problem lies with the crazy libs who dare to point out things like the “newspaper of record” falling for a cheap scammer like Barr. Instead, the Times measures whether it’s doing a good job by whether it gets an equal number of tweets from “both sides” complaining about coverage.
So tonight the Times is a partner in its first debate for 15 years, and they seem to be terrified about what “libs” might say. An article today’s in Vanity Fair sympathizes with the Times, saying it’s in a “no win” situation, and quotes an unidentified Times reporter:
“Something will happen, I’m sure, where the angry left blue-check-mark mob will find something to be outraged about.”
But just prior to that, the Vanity Fair author essentially concedes that Democrats have good reason to criticize the Times:
It seems clear at this point that the Times is never going to live down Hillary’s emails, or “No Clear Link to Russia,” or the end of the public editor. (Or WMD or Jayson Blair, for that matter, because people still love to bring those things up, too.) “I've been keeping a record of GOP-friendly framings in the @nytimes, including its endless coverage of HRC’s emails (while clearing Trump of Russia ties), its ‘he said she said’ Kavanaugh coverage, and its Ukraine reporting,” reads a recent entry over at the #CancelNYT hashtag. Another declares: “Thank goodness for the Washington Post.”
They’re never going to “live it down” as long as they keep doing it again, as it did with their “Cloud Lifted” headline based on the fraudulent Barr Report, or by giving Breitbart liar and conspiracy theorist Peter Schweizer a platform on the op-ed page, or on the same page, publishing a piece advised Dems to emulate Tulsi Gabbard, written by someone from the Independent Women’s Forum (Phyllis Schlafly’s reactionary group), but listed only as a “freelance writer.”