The New York Times: a FOX in journalists' clothing

[jlw]

Originally published at: The New York Times: a FOX in journalists' clothing - Boing Boing

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[anon61221983]

@jlw

Having spent a lot of energy telling us Joe Biden needed to get out of the race because he was old, the New York Times continues to give Donald Trump a free pass. Where are their demands for him to quit the race?

[fredtal]

Tell us again, how great Trump’s economic policy is? Tariffs and trade wars, tax breaks for the rich and corporations. Tell us again, how great trickle down works. Tell us again how giving the oil companies more breaks is going to be so great. Seems that only Don is willing to tell us these lies.

[vernonbird]

@jlw

There is no area in which she is seeking a significant break from his agenda — perhaps not surprising given that she had a role in crafting much of it.

Uncle Joe’s agenda was pretty damned successful, all things considered.
It would make little sense to abandon it for no good reason.

@jlw

She has abandoned a host of progressive positions she adopted while running for the 2020 presidential nomination,

That’s politics.
It’s also a possible harbinger of things that might see daylight again.
After all, Uncle Joe turned out to have a far more progressive agenda than I thought he was capable of, so who knows?

@jlw

and has for the most part avoided getting bogged down in the specifics of what she would do as president.

Let’s wait until after the DNC, shall we?
Let’s get the whole menu first, before quibbling about the ingredients & techniques involved in each item.

@jlw

Ms. Harris’s standard stump speech is hardly bereft of policy, though she does not delve into details.

At least she mentions policy. And, again, it’s a bit early for details.

@jlw

Instead, she calls for a broad range of policies embraced by mainstream Democrats.

The horror!

EDIT: Clarity

[oestrek]

The New York Times: a FOX in journalists’ clothing … so file this under other deeply contemplative reporting like gee the orange man might be a criminal, water is wet and the Sun is hot.

[ZamboniWogglebug]

Meanwhile, after weeks of columns demanding Old Sleepy Joe drop out of the race, NYT columnist Maureen Dowd is now running columns about Harris pulling a coup – a dastardly COUP! – to get Biden out of the race!

[edrowland]

I don’t get the problem. This is a factually correct description of Harris’s campaign strategy. And it’s absolutely the strategy she should be following.

The choice right now is: the old weird guy, with jaw-droppingly horrifying policy, and his frat boy vice-president; or the woman who isn’t old or weird, and her charmingly cuddly new vice president. Introducing policies that have the potential to lose independent voters isn’t a vote-winning strategy at this point. The winning strategy is to stick to policy announcements that are as uncontroversial as possible, while still assuring Democrats that she is one.

This is a case of journalists doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

[gracchus]

If Il Douche wins, I sincerely hope that Joe Kahn and his fellow editorial decision-makers end up in one of Stephen Miller’s gulags specifically for being managers at the “liberal” NYT.

[KathyPartdeux]

How dare Democrats be popular!

If you’re an incumbent administration you’re supposedly running on your history and successes.

Save me NYTpitchbot!

[carlcrossgrove]

I think the problem is one of omission. Dowd is sort of a specialist in ignoring various trampling herds of elephants, so her take is on-brand, if off-key as ever. This same paper’s opinion column was blaring loudly that Biden was a liability. Now, is everything, everywhere, peachy and leveled-out? Shall we get back to nit-picking Dem policy? Sounds great, if you ignore the self-destructing crime boss in the middle of the room, his increasingly incoherent, dangerous and frothing pronouncements, and the white supremacist puppetmasters in his ear. Not fit to print, maybe? /s

[FuckThisTimeLine]

@fredtal

Tell us again, how great trickle down works

I was waiting for my golden shower. /S

[Mitchell]

@vernonbird

@jlw

Ms. Harris’s standard stump speech is hardly bereft of policy, though she does not delve into details.

At least she mentions policy. And, again, it’s a bit early for details.

Yeah, I thought that one was a particularly weird criticism. Nobody breaks down the full specifics of particular policies in stump speeches.

You might get more a little more detailed on a couple of policies when they are particularly relevant for a specific groups you’re addressing - like manufacturing unions, or teachers groups. But generally, stump speeches are for the broad strokes, big picture of your platform.

If she tried to delve deep on even one policy in a stump speech, these same people would call her a boring, uncharismatic, out-of-touch wonk.

[Ttt_Ttt]

“…the New York Times is very disappointed in the Democrat’s economic plans.”

Which Democrat? Biden? Harris? Someone else? No Democrat has yet been mentioned in the story.

[gracchus]

With the preceding phrase you left out that mentions “the Republican candidate for President”, it’s easy for any reader to conclude that the Democrat being discussed is also a candidate for President (hence Harris).