Nicholas Grossman: Media, most notably the NY Times, dismisses a strawman: We won’t stop covering news just because it makes a politician you like look bad. The real critique, the one they duck, is about emphasis and tone, signaling what matters. Good listen, with Greg Sargent hosting Will Stancil (offline version):

Media, most notably the NY Times, dismisses a strawman: We won’t stop covering news just because it makes a politician you like look bad. The real critique, the one they duck, is about emphasis and tone, signaling what matters. Good listen, with Greg Sargent hosting Will Stancil (offline version):

One thing that's clear from the Biden/age story is this: NYT knows how to crusade when it wants to. And NYT is crusading against Biden's mental unfitness for office in a way it's just not doing with Trump. On the pod, @whstancil.bsky.social and I break this all down: newrepublic.com/article/1835...

Trump’s Wildly Unhinged Attack on NYT Should Wake Up Media: He’s Unfitnewrepublic.com With Trump slamming The Times even as it crusades against Biden, a press critic explains how Trump scams the media into adopting a huge double standard on each man's fitness to serve.

Well that, and the fact that those imbalances are only tilted in favor of Republicans. We could forgive errors in judgment; the fact these errors almost universally benefit one side suggests there’s something far more pernicious at work here.

It’s “her emails” all over again. It’s also the same playbook they pulled with Al Gore

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