A #DebtLimit 🧵
@nytimes Publisher @AGSNYT runs NYT as a Republican-protection racket.
Front page framing/gaslighting by @jimtankersley
That normalizes/accepts GOP strategy of abusing the debt ceiling as “politics”
@NormOrnstein @MarkJacob16 @taraemcg @jayrosen_nyu Image
This is a GOP-manufactured reckless, damaging crisis. It is not a @JoeBiden crisis. By centering Biden and omitting details about how the debt ceiling functions - and context the NYT protects the GOP.
“Barrels” because the @GOP is willing to destroy the American economy. Image
“Both sides-ism” hides and protects EXTREMIST GOP positions, harms and inability to govern.

These are institutional decisions to favor Republicans (at the expense of truth) by Editors esp @nycscribe

Legacy media has a pro-Republican bias.

NYT Covering vital news as sports… Image
Please read this great piece by @froomkin on how legacy media is dangerously failing to inform America Re: #DebtCeiling

@KarlBode @raju @owillis
Serious question @jeffjarvis is this NYT A1 analysis “Opinion” or “News reporting”? Image
Buckle up. Reagan staffer Fred Ryan has hired a ln Editorial Team that institutionalizes his pro-Republican bias.

The @washingtonpost Editorial Board issues Opinions. Here’s one that displays WaPo pro-GOP bias. #DebtCeiling

@ElieNYC @protecttruth_
@froomkin @atrupar Image
Gift: wapo.st/449kNXe

This OpEd by the leaders of @washingtonpost is a mess by design.

Because it’s impossible to critically discuss the hostage-taking by the GOP without centering 100% of the culpability on the GOP.

BUT here’s a “both sides”-palooza for the ages.
Reading the whole piece it is clear the Editorial Board sees the danger and hostage-taking for what it is.

This is NOT in the lead paragraph. It should be. Image
Quick reminder to the “Journalists don’t write the headlines”-apologist folks. In this case this piece is BY THE EDITORS THEMSELVES!

So unless #ChatGPT is now doing WaPo headlines this is inexcusable.

@tomwatson @soledadobrien @susanbordson @PostGuild Image
Here’s a truth bomb several paragraphs in. The appropriate word “hostage” IS used.
This GOP-manufactured crisis is about #DebtCeiling and hostage-taking. Why not make that the headline? thereby normalizing it with its influential voice. Instead #Bothsides Image
This is the opening graph. Minimizing Republican irresponsibility +culpability.

GOP is not “allowing” they are FORCING a default.

WaPo says it’s “theatre”.It’s worse, it’s propaganda. legacy media swallow, then REGURGITATE and disseminate it with an aura of legitimacy. Image

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A #DebtLimit 🧵
Reagan staffer & WaPo Publisher Fred Ryan runs @washingtonpost as a Republican-protection racket.

Front page disinfo & gaslighting by @TonyRomm
“Drift” ??passively as if by random? -Tony/WaPo Editors

@NormOrnstein @MarkJacob16 @Sulliview Image
“Both sides-ism” hides EXTREMIST GOP positions, harms and inability to govern.

These are institutional decisions to favor Republicans (at the expense of truth) by Editors and @SallyBuzbee

Legacy media has a pro-Republican bias.

@jayrosen_nyu @JeffSharlet @soledadobrien Image
Hey @froomkin help us make sense why in a 217-215 vote to push America towards a catastrophe @Santos4Congress casting what could be considered a deciding vote” to pass the legislation is not a part of the conversation? He +the GOP cheated to win.
@marceelias @ElieNYC @espiers
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The front page of @nytimes is a window into its priorities. Today an affront against democracy by
-minimizing GOP war on women and democracy
-fascism 2024

@AGSNYT runs the NYT as a Republican-protection racket.

A Mini A1 🧵
@MarkJacob16 @ElieNYC Image
A1 top right prime front page was selected by editors for Wisconsin “news analysis”.

Serious Q: Anyone know how this is not “opinion” masquerading as “objectivity”? Is this a thing?

Thoughts?
@Sulliview @protecttruth_ @MarkJacob16 Image
This “news analysis” fails to center the GOP war on the rights of Americans and how there is a massive difference be D/R. But @reidepstein is now “analyzing” for NYT readers as if shilling for @DraftKings Reid: abortion rights are not a Democratic “strategy” -they are values!
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.@NPR has just written an advertisement for Nazis under the guise of reporting on the problem of white supremacist hate groups.

Don’t believe us?

A 🧵…starting with this positive headline.

@MrOlmos, @jimurquhartpixs what are you thinking? What was your editor thinking?

1/ Image
The headers above the sections, about NAZIS (!), read:

-Finding people with like minds

-A nice way to go about it

-Projecting power

-“It’s a good way to relate to normal people”

-The face of hate

Barring one, these might as well have been written by a PR firm. 2/ Image
According to Fascist Quarterl— er, we mean @NPR, the Nazis are a scrappy, admirable bunch of go-getters with the gumption to “punch above their weight and get noticed.”

@MrOlmos @jimurquhartpixs and your editor, what on Earth are you doing? 3/ Image
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The @nytimes is a “Republican protection racket”. Its editors use linguistic tricks + word choices TO whitewash Republicans:
Instead of “extremists” “neofascists” “radicals” they’re “hard right” “right”

@nycscribe make up your mind!

A🧵
@Sulliview @susanbordson @nhannahjones
These word choices are NOT neutral or “objective”. They are editorial activism.

In this one piece the NYT editors use 5 different #FraudulentEuphemism for the radical extremists who wish to eliminate much of our Govt and social safety net.
@MarkJacob16
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/…
Euphemism scoreboard
Arch-conservative
Hard-right
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The @nytimes is failing to defend our democracy from neofascism.

As THE role-model + influencer of media coverage, NYT failures have a disproportionately large impact.

Today NYT whitewashes + normalizes dangerous neofascist @RepMTG

A thread.
@ruthbenghiat @TimothyDSnyder
On the Front Page today @nytimes prioritizes the issue of gender and the @GOP. Admirable goal.

Tho manages to whitewash discussion of “sexism” as “views on sexism” but that’s another failure.

cc: @rtraister @soledadobrien @MarkJacob16
Link: nytimes.com/2023/02/19/us/…
In this piece @RepMTG features surprisingly prominently for a new-though visible politician.

Language choices by NYT @nycscribe frame truth.

“conspiracy theory-minded” is a meaningless neologism and euphemism for extremist, insurrectionist, propagandist..
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Invest in your local newspaper by subscribing to it.

Many folks learned yesterday that @FoxNews is a propaganda arm of the Republican Party from its CEO right wing oligarch @rupertmurdoch

The @nytimes does not consider this front page worthy.

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@Sulliview @MarkJacob16
This is a huge development. Credit to the @washingtonpost who see that the agenda-setting hate-for-profit network #fox lies at a massive scale is an important story.

Why @SallyBuzbee won’t say lies is an indictment of institutional weakness.

But +1 for putting this story A1
But what do @nycscribe & @AGSNYT do as Rupert Murdoch IN HIS OWN WORDS says that Fox is a political arm that will do all it can to help GOP?
Not front page.

But what is?
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