like, why would you publish this on the fourth of fucking july, and why wouldn’t you do even a single cursory search to see if he actually had voted recently
I know this is a rhetorical question but the answer is because they legitimately want donald trump to be the next president and usher in a one-party autocracy for the rest of their lives because they think covering it will be fun for them
That and trump will most definitely do political genocide and send dissenters and journalists to a painful death or labor camp before painful death, so they sense it and are going to instead start championing the guy with the gun pointed at their head. They are cowards plain and simple
having money is fun, going to happy hours with your GOP operative buddies and feeling like you're in the room where it happens is fun, feeling like one of the main characters of history is fun
clarence thomas has had a very rich and fulfilling lifestyle because his actual benefactors have rewarded him for writing the things that they want him to, now extrapolate this to other people who write for a living
I don't think it's that deep. NYT is known for having a somewhat educated reader base so readers should be intelligent enough to not let a simple news article change their decision to vote
people intuitively understand that advertising exists as a multi-billion dollar industry because repeated and broad exposure to ideas influences people's behavior, but when it comes to the media suddenly it's "this doesn't count as bad because it doesn't change anyone's behavior entirely on its own"
Differentiating views should be censored just because *some* people are too ignorant? Should we lower the bar on all literature too just because we're scared the ppl who can't think for themselves might act it out? Sounds like a dystopian way of gatekeeping information and shadow-banning free speech
it's not "censorship" to say that newspapers should exercise socially responsible editorial judgment in their coverage
by the standard you've set here, articles about how donald trump would be bad are being censored by the media because they aren't getting published but you're not mad about that
