To anyone still wondering if New York Times can disgrace itself even more than it already has in recent years, Dan Froomkin has an answer:
"The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity."
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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The sad, sad state of the New York Times
Trolling the libs is par for the courseDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The newsroom will go to extreme lengths to achieve its primary missions -- and one of them, most assuredly, is to take cheap shots at the left. ...
"And you can trace it back to the very top: to editor Joe Kahn and his boss, publisher A.G. Sulzberger. …
Parts of the Times operation remain brilliant, most notably its investigative journalism and Cooking."
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"But its coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness."
Froomkin is absolutely right. This ugly hit piece which raises major ethical questions about how NYT does journalism is exactly what I'd have expected from NYT — and why I read it only when other sources I respect cite some of its few worthwhile reports.
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post 'i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi,' he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him."
~ Parker Molloy
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JamelleBouie
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The NYT Has a New Standard for What's Newsworthy: Whatever White Supremacists Are Pushing
Parker Molloy (The Present Age)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"[The Zohran Mamdani story] came to the Times due to a widespread hack into Columbia’s databases, transmitted to the paper through an intermediary who was given anonymity by the paper. That source turns out to be Jordan Lasker, who – as the Guardian has reported – is a well-known and much criticized ''eugenicist', AKA white supremacist."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?
Margaret Sullivan (The Guardian)JillL
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Traditional journalism ethics suggests that when news organizations base a story on hacked or stolen information, there should be an extra high bar of newsworthiness to justify publication."
#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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Timo
in reply to William Lindsey • • •