The Times is a joke and getting worse. Thanks for this, but even your words are not harsh enough.
60 Minutes is going to air its program on the election, next Monday during prime time at 8 pm instead of Sunday. I hope they do a better job than the Times. We shall see.
That longtime orange sex pest and now convicted felon has never been "entertaining" to me. Appalling and revolting, yes. Thank you for keeping the heat on the Times; they deserve every bit of opprobrium.
Thanks for your steady drumbeat about the Times' travesty of reporting on the Presidential election. I just got a notice about a rather dramatic increase in the cost of a subscription over the next two years. No thanks.
Both the Times and WaPo are guilty of shortchanging the public about the stakes in this election. And MSM is important in establishing the type of discourse picked up by all other media. You are absolutely correct about the gratuitous addition of fpotus's name in just about every article about Harris, or Democrats. MSM has an addiction to injecting the convicted felon into just about any news story. It is stupifying propaganda, feeding the fpotus ego, and absolving him of any accountability for his insane racist, misogynist, xenophobic, paranoid, angry, vitriol. Does MSM really want Project 2025 to be our new constitution? Sure seems that way. Puzzles and cross words indeed.
Canvassing in 2016 I saw how The NY Times sets the terms of discourse for all the media: when they write dozens of stories about something, all the other media follow. And in 2016 they ran more front-page stories about Hillary's emails in the 6 days before the election than about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69 (thank you for the legwork, Columbia Journalism Review). Emails was the most covered "issue." Given that, they have some gall demanding an exclusive sit-down with Harris complaining that she isn't providing enough "details" about her policies when they didn't even cover broad outlines of policy in 2016. They absolutely don't deserve it. At people's doors in inner-city Cleveland in 2016, I heard "Of COURSE I'd never vote for Trump but I just don't like Hillary." When I asked why, the answer was always "I keep hearing about her emails." They could never explain what it was about the emails that bothered them, they just know SOMETHING must be wrong to get so much coverage. No one was asking for more policy details. I would've hoped after the shameful year they would've done some soul searching (when Ivanka and Jared used private email for government business, they quickly decided it was a non-story) but apparently they haven't.
The NYT is a weak remnant of its former self. I was not shocked to see the Harris endorsement, and likewise not so shocked to see its back-handed style. Talk about half-assed! They are too afraid to lose their sensational "entertainment value" meal (click) ticket. And, please. Can we all just stop it with the "Trump is a showman" schtick? FFS. He is pathetically miles away from being a "showman." Maggie Haberman is rooting for Trump - but we all know, her bed is made. She, and many of her colleagues at NYT are miles away from doing "a very good job" at covering Trump. Instead, they are participating in the corporate sanewashing that dilutes effective headlines and eviscerates accurate reporting. Our mistake is that we all very much want to rely on NYT for news and informed points of view. We have not learned our lesson yet. In fact, there are very few "undecided" or "persuadable" voters. We have a baked-in electorate that is going to vote exactly for the president it deserves - regardless of what NYT has to say about it. Let's just all pray that it will not be Trump.
I've heard the publisher's platitudes, the why of sane washing, the why of distorted headlines. It smells like fear- fear of losing access, fear of Trump winning and facing consequences. That they are causing him to win smells like self-fulfilling prophecy. Portugal, here I come!
Just a reminder that you don’t actually have to BE a Haitian immigrant for Trump supporters to want to kill you. You just have to be someone the collection of racist halfwit brownshirts that now comprise 100 percent of his supporters THINK looks like a Haitian immigrant.
Don't forget, the NYT gave us Trump with their incessant coverage of the "Hillary's emails scandal" and their tabloid coverage of Trump the entertainer. They have not changed. This is their MO.
Most covered "issue" in 2016: the emails. Why I think they're completely humiliating themselves with their childish pouting that Harris won't do a sit-down interview with them. Meanwhile, I saw she just did another substantive interview with a podcast they could listen to if they REALLY wanted to know about her policies but they don't. They want to hector her with questions about Trump and her take on the Trump campaign's attacks on her.
Sulzberger: First, they came for my reporters but I did not speak out. Then they came for my editors but I still did not speak out. Then they came for Wordle, and I really got big mad!!
Trump’s vile rhetoric reached new heights of the depths over the weekend so naturally there’s no mention of it on the NYT homepage today. If they really are the paper of record we may be doomed.
They used to be really good but have tacked far to the right in the last 3-4 years. I've gotten really tired of their heroic stories about anti-choice activists and the constant drumbeat of "Economic news better than expected but could be bad soon and hurt Biden" stories.
Thank you Mark for using your voice to call the NYTimes to account. Maybe you could send A.G. Sulzberger a personal invitation to subscribe (if you haven't already!)? He seems like he could use a good shake and a serious talking to.
You nailed it. Those headlines are ridiculous. I canceled my long time subscription along w the WP. Disgusted!
A note of thanks for your attention to the sad situation media has put us in. It would be laughable were it not so damn scary.
The Times is a joke and getting worse. Thanks for this, but even your words are not harsh enough.
60 Minutes is going to air its program on the election, next Monday during prime time at 8 pm instead of Sunday. I hope they do a better job than the Times. We shall see.
That longtime orange sex pest and now convicted felon has never been "entertaining" to me. Appalling and revolting, yes. Thank you for keeping the heat on the Times; they deserve every bit of opprobrium.
Thanks for your steady drumbeat about the Times' travesty of reporting on the Presidential election. I just got a notice about a rather dramatic increase in the cost of a subscription over the next two years. No thanks.
Both the Times and WaPo are guilty of shortchanging the public about the stakes in this election. And MSM is important in establishing the type of discourse picked up by all other media. You are absolutely correct about the gratuitous addition of fpotus's name in just about every article about Harris, or Democrats. MSM has an addiction to injecting the convicted felon into just about any news story. It is stupifying propaganda, feeding the fpotus ego, and absolving him of any accountability for his insane racist, misogynist, xenophobic, paranoid, angry, vitriol. Does MSM really want Project 2025 to be our new constitution? Sure seems that way. Puzzles and cross words indeed.
Canvassing in 2016 I saw how The NY Times sets the terms of discourse for all the media: when they write dozens of stories about something, all the other media follow. And in 2016 they ran more front-page stories about Hillary's emails in the 6 days before the election than about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69 (thank you for the legwork, Columbia Journalism Review). Emails was the most covered "issue." Given that, they have some gall demanding an exclusive sit-down with Harris complaining that she isn't providing enough "details" about her policies when they didn't even cover broad outlines of policy in 2016. They absolutely don't deserve it. At people's doors in inner-city Cleveland in 2016, I heard "Of COURSE I'd never vote for Trump but I just don't like Hillary." When I asked why, the answer was always "I keep hearing about her emails." They could never explain what it was about the emails that bothered them, they just know SOMETHING must be wrong to get so much coverage. No one was asking for more policy details. I would've hoped after the shameful year they would've done some soul searching (when Ivanka and Jared used private email for government business, they quickly decided it was a non-story) but apparently they haven't.
The NYT is a weak remnant of its former self. I was not shocked to see the Harris endorsement, and likewise not so shocked to see its back-handed style. Talk about half-assed! They are too afraid to lose their sensational "entertainment value" meal (click) ticket. And, please. Can we all just stop it with the "Trump is a showman" schtick? FFS. He is pathetically miles away from being a "showman." Maggie Haberman is rooting for Trump - but we all know, her bed is made. She, and many of her colleagues at NYT are miles away from doing "a very good job" at covering Trump. Instead, they are participating in the corporate sanewashing that dilutes effective headlines and eviscerates accurate reporting. Our mistake is that we all very much want to rely on NYT for news and informed points of view. We have not learned our lesson yet. In fact, there are very few "undecided" or "persuadable" voters. We have a baked-in electorate that is going to vote exactly for the president it deserves - regardless of what NYT has to say about it. Let's just all pray that it will not be Trump.
I gave up thinking the NYTimes would respond appropriately to the crisis Trump/maga poses to our Nation and cancelled my subscription.
The NYTimes must be boycotted. They will only listen when they have no readers left.
There are other sources for recipes and crosswords that are not trying to make an aspiring dictator seem acceptable.
I've heard the publisher's platitudes, the why of sane washing, the why of distorted headlines. It smells like fear- fear of losing access, fear of Trump winning and facing consequences. That they are causing him to win smells like self-fulfilling prophecy. Portugal, here I come!
If Trump came to power, nowhere would be safe. We need to stop them here and now.
I will stay and fight. I only have one life to give, but I would rather hang with the patriots than live with the fascists!
Just a reminder that you don’t actually have to BE a Haitian immigrant for Trump supporters to want to kill you. You just have to be someone the collection of racist halfwit brownshirts that now comprise 100 percent of his supporters THINK looks like a Haitian immigrant.
Don't forget, the NYT gave us Trump with their incessant coverage of the "Hillary's emails scandal" and their tabloid coverage of Trump the entertainer. They have not changed. This is their MO.
Most covered "issue" in 2016: the emails. Why I think they're completely humiliating themselves with their childish pouting that Harris won't do a sit-down interview with them. Meanwhile, I saw she just did another substantive interview with a podcast they could listen to if they REALLY wanted to know about her policies but they don't. They want to hector her with questions about Trump and her take on the Trump campaign's attacks on her.
Yup. Same old shit.
History will not judge them kindly.
Sulzberger: First, they came for my reporters but I did not speak out. Then they came for my editors but I still did not speak out. Then they came for Wordle, and I really got big mad!!
Trump’s vile rhetoric reached new heights of the depths over the weekend so naturally there’s no mention of it on the NYT homepage today. If they really are the paper of record we may be doomed.
I switched to the Washington Post as an antidote to the NYT. Hardly perfect but a lot more tolerable.
They used to be really good but have tacked far to the right in the last 3-4 years. I've gotten really tired of their heroic stories about anti-choice activists and the constant drumbeat of "Economic news better than expected but could be bad soon and hurt Biden" stories.
Thank you Mark for using your voice to call the NYTimes to account. Maybe you could send A.G. Sulzberger a personal invitation to subscribe (if you haven't already!)? He seems like he could use a good shake and a serious talking to.