QOTD -- Something's Still Fishy At The New York Times

 

"Two things — check that, three things — appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady. First, whoever is in charge of the paper’s polls is not doing their job. Second, whoever is choosing what to emphasize in Times coverage of the campaign for the presidency is showing bias. Third, the Times is obsessed with Joe Biden’s age at the same time they’re leaving evidence of Donald Trump’s mental and verbal stumbles completely out of the news.  [snip]

"There are no scandals with the name Biden attached to them, unless you consider the lies Russian spies supplied the so-called impeachment committee with. So The New York Times has apparently devoted half a floor in its Eighth Avenue headquarters to a search for bad news about Biden, and then they reserve a space nearly every day above the fold on the front page for whatever grain of grim shit the Biden hunters have managed to come up with. They’re probably working on a story on how Biden is losing the pro-choice vote as we speak, while pointing out the wild success of Trump’s 'move to the middle' on abortion with 'centrist' voters. 

"If you’re getting off the subway anywhere near Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, hold your nose. There’s something fishy at the New York Times." --  Lucian K. Truscott IV, Salon, on the fishy nature of the Times' coverage of the Malignant Loser and President Biden.  

It's the same paper, of course, that heavily promoted the Hilary Clinton emails not- scandal so heavily in the run up to the 2016 election.  Remember this infamous front page days before the 2016 election?

The Times, as Truscott notes, is making the same error in bias and emphasis now that it did then, making this more of a feature than a bug in its political coverage.  This, while knowing what everyone knows now about the Malignant Loser's plans for American democracy makes them an enabler at best, a willing dupe at worst.

BONUS:  More Republican- friendly fishiness at the Times.

BONUS II:  In response to Anon's comment, someone has looked into why the Times is adopting a Trump- fluffing posture.  Press Watch's Dan Froomkin.