The NYT call for Biden to step down would seem momentous if not for the fact the NYT has been absolutely beclowning itself on Biden v. Trump for several years now.
I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
To be fair, the Times has been around a long time and they’re the national paper of record. And they’ve built a multi-faceted business, buying Wirecutter & The Athletic. Their cooking app is very popular. So they’re not as reliant on traditional revenues like print subscriptions.
They survived WWII fascism, I’m betting on them. To be clear, they’ve ticked me off w their headline choices and the never-ending stories about Biden’s age. But since digital when you can read >1 outlet, on any given story, theirs are always the most well-written.
They absolutely get talent in the door, but the editorial choices are absurd.
Also, this time the fascism is being invited by those editorial choices even as Trump lambasts them and threatens them with his followers violence.
Indeed. No one needs to be fair to the NYT. They do nothing to warrant such generosity. They are a profit machine for a few right-leaning centrists exploiting an institution that has failed to evolve to meet the moment, but rather adjusts to extract more money from the audience and advertisers.
As former Secretary Richard Stengel puts it, “The quest for balance is a trap. Treating both sides of a debate as equal when one side is demonstrably false is not fairness but malpractice. Truth is more important than balance. There aren't two sides to a lie.”
NYT laundered Nazism and antisemitism in the leadup to WWII, including quoting an unnamed "sophisticated politician" who *literally* said you do, under the circumstances, gotta hand it to Hitler
