During the summer of the 2016 campaign, the “public editor” for the New York Times, Liz Spayd, criticized the paper’s transparently unbalanced coverage. Even though the criticism was ventured hesitantly, it still rankled reporters. “Mostly I was met with a roll of the eyes,” she said about her attempts to ask reporters about the paper’s liberal bias. Nor did the paper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, want to hear about it. “He doesn’t believe that the coverage on most days has a liberal cast, nor does he think campaign ads or the rare front-page editorial create that perception,” she wrote.
Spayd worried that the paper might become the “New Republic gone daily” and asked: “Imagine a country where the greatest, most powerful newsroom in the free world was viewed, not as a voice that speaks to all, but as one that has taken sides.” It wasn’t hard to imagine. Its conversion to liberal advocacy had happened a long time ago. It still pretended to be an “objective” newspaper — indeed, the ombudsman’s job is itself part of that pretense — but for all intents and purposes, it had become a publication of, by, and for liberals.........the reporters have made it clear to Spayd that they don’t need to change their attitude; she does. ......Spayd is a “public editor” at a paper that doesn’t want to hear from the public......To Read More....
My Take - The NYT is doomed. They worry about the "crisis in journalism", and the threat to press freedom", but their worries never focus on them or what they're doing. It's the Internet "journalists" who are at fault. The "crisis in journalism" was as a result of unending levels of hubris and distain for society. The "threat to the press" is self inflicted, because they created a vacuum of reliable and truthful information. In short - they printed lies of commission and lies of omission regularly.
No matter what journalists say - it's no longer the newspaper of record, nor is it a Gray Lady. The NYT is an old gray hag.
Newspapers and magazines all over the country have failed their readers and have ceased physical publication, and have either disappeared or have gone to the internet, just as Newsweek. The internet has given society the means to find out what is true and what is spin.
And now we know they have not told the truth; they have deliberately misrepresented the facts and they have done everything in their power to obfuscate the facts with emotional arguments that are mostly logical fallacies, and emotion will outweigh logic every time. Fantasy is far more attractive than reality; that is why works of fiction are so popular. They represent innocent temporary escapes from reality. But in the information business fiction is called by a different name; it’s called “lying”. And most of what passes for news can be construed as lies of omission.
The media, as a whole, are filled with leftists, and the left has never had a close relationship with the truth. The left is more than willing to change itself into an angel of light if that is what works to get them power. Whatever is popular is what it is they believe…for as long as it suits their goal for attaining power.
The Progressive Movement in United States was socialism American style. When Woodrow Wilson was President of the U.S. the binding force for the Progressive Movement in America was…..believe it or not…..religion. European socialism was atheistic in nature and that just wouldn’t float in America, so it became the Progressive Movement and the rationale was that socialism was the practical application of Christian ethic. It was later called Liberalism and by that time the true socialists within the movement was able to kick the religionists to the curb because they didn’t need them any longer. After WWII the binding force for Liberalism was psychology. If you disagreed with them you were insane.
Newspapers and magazines all over the country have failed their readers and have ceased physical publication, and have either disappeared or have gone to the internet, just as Newsweek. The internet has given society the means to find out what is true and what is spin.
And now we know they have not told the truth; they have deliberately misrepresented the facts and they have done everything in their power to obfuscate the facts with emotional arguments that are mostly logical fallacies, and emotion will outweigh logic every time. Fantasy is far more attractive than reality; that is why works of fiction are so popular. They represent innocent temporary escapes from reality. But in the information business fiction is called by a different name; it’s called “lying”. And most of what passes for news can be construed as lies of omission.
The media, as a whole, are filled with leftists, and the left has never had a close relationship with the truth. The left is more than willing to change itself into an angel of light if that is what works to get them power. Whatever is popular is what it is they believe…for as long as it suits their goal for attaining power.
The Progressive Movement in United States was socialism American style. When Woodrow Wilson was President of the U.S. the binding force for the Progressive Movement in America was…..believe it or not…..religion. European socialism was atheistic in nature and that just wouldn’t float in America, so it became the Progressive Movement and the rationale was that socialism was the practical application of Christian ethic. It was later called Liberalism and by that time the true socialists within the movement was able to kick the religionists to the curb because they didn’t need them any longer. After WWII the binding force for Liberalism was psychology. If you disagreed with them you were insane.
Mark this down. I predict the day will come when the New York Times will cease publication.
A day for rejoicing.
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