You don’t tell us who our nominee is.
Ever. We tell you.
I am saddened at the demise of the New York Times’ professional standards and their lack of realization of the same.
They had their moments, some good stories. Now it’s time for them to rest and put their last story to bed.
Time to let younger, more truthful youthful media carry the hard news baton.
The New York Times always functioned best as a home town paper for New Yorkers.
Its coverage of 9-11 and the terrible aftermath was often excellent. Truthful, in-depth, and certainly heartfelt.
From their “50 of Our Best” article, see The Reckoning: The 10th Anniversary of 9/11 America and the world, a decade after 9/11, and many other stories from that day and the following decades.
Before that, coverage of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the Nixon era, led Americans to believe that the Times was a paper of courage, insight, wit, depth, thoroughness, and determination.
We readers willed them to be a better newspaper than they ever were.
It was easy to forget their previous glaring errors like failing to report the Russian Revolution (1917–1920) was actually happening, ignoring Holodomor- the Ukraine famine in the 1930s, admiring Chancellor Hitler and his charming mountain retreat, and downplaying the entire Holocaust during WWII and immediately afterwards.
Those of us who saw the Times leading the drumbeat for war in Iraq could not convince others that the Times was exaggerating at best, flat out lying at worst, because others remembered the Nixon years coverage and the massive outrage and pain of the 9-11 attacks.
The Times thinks it covered US politics from 2015 well. Seriously, they think they did a great job. This is in their “50 Best”. Go figure.
The rest of us remember the Times’ 2015-16 election coverage as loving the celebrity candidate Trump while ignoring his history as a failed businessman, bully, and conman. They relentlessly ran stories on Hillary’s email server, and lied about her health. Hillary was cleared by the FBI; Trump was still under investigation because his campaign team kept talking with known Russian agents. Times coverage would have led to you believe the direct opposite was true.
I didn’t get a Times subscription until after the 2016 election. They couldn’t hurt Clinton anymore and I thought their coverage of Trump surely had to get better.
I was wrong.
The New York Times, just like their boy Trump, has a severely exaggerated sense of their own importance and intelligence. You would think the Times had an uncle who taught at MIT.
The Times saw Biden’s poor performance at the debate as a chance to pounce and punish Biden, a politician who defied their demand that he sit for an interview under their terms. After all, they missed the fun of pouncing on and punishing Clinton’s campaign, and wanted to show their muscle again. Instead, they appear like moribund muscleheads.
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After endless articles attacking Biden, choosing to ignore the wishes of Dem primary voters, and full of the narcissist hubris of their hero (Trump), the Times editorial staff and leadership foolishly decided that the Biden campaign should end.
They decided.
They did not ask me.
They did not ask you.
They ignored Biden’s direct and clear statement.
That’s not reporting news.
That’s trying to make news.
That’s trying to make fetch happen.
By July, I had decided to cancel my New York Times digital subscription, but got caught up in holiday celebration for the 4th of July.
Then the Times published an essay telling Americans not to vote.
On July 4th, our Independence Day.
That was an unforgivable insult. I have voted in every election I could since I turned 18.
You, or your best friend, or your “guest” writer do not EVER tell me not to vote.
I called and canceled my subscription July 5. I believe many others have, also.
My advice for the New York Times—
You don’t have to stop everything
You can cover recipes, books, puzzles… Things you are still good at. Trivia.
The Times excels at trivia and fun meaningless stories.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? This interactive feature was one of the most popular in The Times’ digital history.”
Just give up writing stories, editorials, and essays on politics, because you are clearly biased and frequently wrong.
No publication can be good at everything. It’s okay.
This personal message is also applicable to the Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, MSNBC, certain “anonymous politicians”, and all others who turned on Biden for one poor debate.
Get out of my foxhole. (Except Lawrence O’Donnell, who kept his head.)
We will do the heavy lifting of saving democracy without you.
This year and every year hereafter.