James Felix Black: Sure. But I think the media’s culpability in 2016 Trump’s a lot more about cable “news” than the elite rag, you know? And Trump was always more Post bait than Times bait IIRC.

i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect

Even further back. Does America accept Donald Trump as a business genius without the NYT shilling and cheerleading from his emergence on the scene?

I think this overstates the reach of the Times, honestly.

I mostly agree with you about their reach, but when the subject is specifically Donald Trump he was a colorful local character to them for many, many years

Sure. But I think the media’s culpability in 2016 Trump’s a lot more about cable “news” than the elite rag, you know? And Trump was always more Post bait than Times bait IIRC.