I read the NYT and have done so for about 35 years. Whatever it was in the past it is now just a mindless blog. It has always been an opinion rag, and it has descended to a navel gazing, self-absorbed, self-important, tantrum spewing, mash-up of leftist tropes and group think.
I used to look forward to William Safire on Sunday mornings when I wanted to be humbled on my English language usage and etymology. The book reviews were about the best on the planet and the folks who wrote them were excellent writers themselves.
William Safire is dead. They hardly do genuine book reviews anymore. And the staff is in large part a set of angry and mediocre writers who do little more than promote ideology while admiring each other. And quite frankly it is not enough to say that many are poor or unoriginal thinkers... many are just plain ignorant (willfully so) and dumb. About the only things remaining that are worthwhile are the cooking/recipe section and the crossword. The rest just allows me to keep a pulse on what is in the main a leftist manifesto.
Of the roughly 530,00 articles written on the Trump-Russia story between May 17, 2017 (1) and the release of the Mueller report, the NYT can account for more than 1,000 of them. Including this utter pile of rancid garbage:
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence The "facts" laid plainly in the opening paragraph turned out to be very ordinary bullshit. This story was first debunked by Comey, then later by other intelligence officials. And now, by Mueller. But it doesn't matter to folks who want nothing more than to believe the fiction.
In retrospect almost all accurate and objective reporting on the topic came from non-traditional reporting sources and, somewhat surprisingly, from right leaning groups like Fox (where Adam Schiff laid out words he should be eating). The WSJ also gets a nod to fair-mindedness, I think.
What is now to be made of the term "fake news" as applied to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, et al? They are not news organizations. They are leftist rage machines.
It is not enough to assail their credibility. They have shucked all journalistic responsibility (my understatement of the morning) and gone after the pillars of democracy with a sort of missionary zeal. My opinion is that they have taken it to the point of aiding and abetting a coup.
Let's dispense with the bullshit mask of journalism from which they hide behind. Like Brennan, et al, they need to be compelled to come before the special prosecutor that Lindsay Graham has just proposed and answer for what they have done, with whom, and why.
(1)
https://www.axios.com/robert-muelle...ach-0586790d-711f-42fe-b3e1-21acc54cdfa6.html Since May 2017, 533,074 web articles have been published about Russia and Trump/Mueller, generating
245 million interactions — including likes, comments and shares — on Twitter and Facebook, according to data from social-media analytics company
NewsWhip.
