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May 12, 2023 • 14 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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@nytimes normalizing coverage of DJT is as dangerous as that of #CNN

The #FrontPage NYT influences moderates/liberals/journalists.

Today an A1 abomination of gaslighting, whitewashing & normalization of DJT:
-continued assault on truth
-fascism and danger

@JeffSharlet Image
4 NYT journalists shameful in their erasure of Trump’s criminality, &firehose of INTENTIONAL disinformation.

The online headline is gaslighting us.

TRUMP IS INCOMPATIBLE AND AT WAR WITH AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. That is the story not “breaking norms”
@anatosaurus @froomkin Image
This is an accurate opening graph. BUT the entire piece fails to convey any of the “stakes” or harms such as the end of American democracy.

This could have been a #ChatGPT summary of the #CNN entertainment show masquerading as informing America. Image
Is this a “vision” or a threat to American democracy and society?
Why @JenniferReitman can’t the NYT include any morality in their coverage?
Is it @AGSNYT @NYTimesGuild that NYT has no position on any of these menacing “visions” of DJT? Is “adherence to rule of law” activism? Image
We are being gaslit by the NYT. This is #fascism

Please NYT consult experts outside of your ego-centric halls.
Ask @TimothyDSnyder @ruthbenghiat what they think of this “bend government” vision!

Shit ask #ChatGPT what would James Madison or Shirley Chisholm would think! Image
Why @Sulliview does @nytimes ignore your sounding the alarm?

@nhannahjones @jayrosen_nyu

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This piece is normalizing garbage. Its structure follows the NYT @maggieNYT formula center Republican perspectives.

Trump attempted an overthrow of American democracy and is a threat to all the world. Why is Mike Esper a NYT go to quote?

@tomwatson @iTweetyNerd Image
ALERT. NYT prints unfiltered anti-Biden disinformation from @JasonMillerinDC (through AccessMaggie?)

@nycscribe this piece is a failure on your shoulders.

@ElieNYC @jeffjarvis Image
This is true. Image
Please @owillis @DougJBalloon remember this NYT A1 trash if fascism lands its knockout punch on American democracy in 2024 that “the paper of record” was going with “shattering norms” instead of “corrupt fascist seeking to end democracy”.
@protecttruth_ Image
Dr. King quote almost fits to describe NYT and NYT readers who cannot see the racism and harms embodied in Trump while deluding themselves Trump is “just a candidate” and “norm breaker”. He’s worse than that. He’s a white supremacist but NYT won’t say that. @michaelharriot Image
The DAILY FAILURES of the @nytimes to cover Trump as a fascist, criminal and threat are worse than #ChrisLicht infotainment spectacle.

@MMBrussell @protecttruth_

H/t @MarkJacob16 👇
Yes @TimothyDSnyder but CNN is a corporate subsidiary of an entertainment corporation. It’s prime directive is shareholder bottom line.

This is why NYT failure to cover Trump as a fascist is MORE dangerous than #CNN
This was CNN infotainment. NYT playing its role as Trump-normalizer. @nycscribe should also have some explaining to do to @joshtpm

NYT highlighting Trumps
“breaking norms” after 7 years of depravity, criminality and Corruption is a journalistic failure.

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Apr 25
A🧵The @nytimes is failing to stand up for democracy.

Today @charlie_savage normalizes threats and whitewashes Trump’s plans to govern as a dictator and end American democracy.

Euphemistic BS abounds.

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@MarkJacob16 @ruthbenghiat @NewsJennifer Image
It’s hard to stomach how little @NYTimesGuild @AGSNYT care about our democracy.

NYT keyboards cannot type “fascist” or “dictator”.

NYT hides reality and deceives its readership.

“Eliminate checks and balances” = dictatorship

2/
 @tzimmer_history @JeffSharlet Image
@NYTimesGuild @AGSNYT @tzimmer_history @JeffSharlet This is called “dictatorship”. SEE Russia @charlie_savage

Will NYT wake up to the very real chance of a Trump dictatorship? Or will it Wordle itself to a bigger audience w/some news-lite?

Can NYT hire some historians to consult? @nycscribe

3/
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Mar 1
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By whitewashing & normalizing #SCOTUS corruption @nytimes is enabling the destruction of American democracy.

NYT is now a MAGA Supreme Court-protection racket.
#AbsoluteImmunity is an afront to democracy
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 @MarkJacob16 @ruthbenghiat
@NewsJennifer @froomkin @KyleYSpencer Image
As *THE* role-model + influencer of media coverage, NYT failures have an even greater impact. NYT continues to ignore SCOTUS corruption.

On 2/29/24 NYT leadership @AGSNYT @nycscribe used the front page to misinform America about the latest legal abomination from #SCOTUS
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@AGSNYT @nycscribe This effort by @adamliptak fails to convey the MAJOR implications - #SCOTUS is more legally corrupt than imagined.

4 justices -likely MAGA have an extraordinary view: it’s necessary to even answer if a President is above the law.

@airbagmoments @AndreaChalupa @anelsona

3/ Image
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Feb 16
A🧵 The @nytimes leadership @AGSNYT + @nycscribe amplify @peterbakernyt who
continues to fail at conveying the harms and catastrophe of Trump 2.0 governing as an AUTOCRAT & his alliances with Putin+other autocrats.

Today front page
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 @MarkJacob16 @ruthbenghiat @NewsJennifer Image
It is astounding that Peter’s opinions (labeled NEWS ANALYSIS) are repeatedly given Front Page narrative-shaping prominence by NYT.

TLDR:
MAGA Republicans don’t ally with democracies.

Trump voters don’t care about the world.

NYT has second digital headline
2/
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@NewsJennifer This is @DougJBalloon material

“Ideologically flexible”?

Has his alignment w/Putin’s interests been flexible?

Is the NYT crediting Trump for his prescient authoritarianism?

Perhaps consider this a regression and revanchism.

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Feb 11
A🧵@nytimes is a $7B *media company*. It no longer prioritizes a role in defense of democracy or the Fourth Estate. This NEEDS to change.
The leader of the GOP is waging war on democracy &is a threat to the world.
1/n
 @JeffSharlet @ruthbenghiat @TDucklo @MarkJacob16 @mehdirhasan Image
The NYT leadership (@AGSNYT @nycscribe ) is responsible for the direction + priorities.

@NYTimesGuild we have to ask at what point do you speak publicly about the failures of NYT?

Is this week’s perverse obsession w/Biden age/memory instead of COMPETENCE a wake up call?
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@AGSNYT @nycscribe @NYTimesGuild The @nytimes
habitual normalizing coverage of Trump (and omission of Trump’s depravity and fascism) is not only dangerous -at this point it’s complicity.

Please see a past thread of how NYT whitewashes fascism.
3/
 @jeffjarvis @Sulliview @NewsJennifer
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Jan 28
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The leadership at @nytimes needs to defend American democracy. But it is not.

Today the editorial decision to normalize Trump #FrontPage
“Mr. Trump, 77, has a libertine past, a salesman's flair and an extraordinary instinct for insult.”
cc: @ruthbenghiat @MarkJacob16
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The power of @AGSNYT + @nycscribe is immense in shaping narrative.

This piece fails to center Trump is a convicted criminal accused by 20+ women of sexual assault and the rule of law and Kaplan beat him. The “human interest” angle fails and normalizes criminality.
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@AGSNYT @nycscribe Our Tweet w/a breakdown of this piece yesterday got some attention (before unveiled as #FrontPage)
There’s a link to the NYT for you to diplomatically let them know that they need to stop “normalization”.

Putting this A1 is not “objectivity” it’s a choice.
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@Sulliview
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Jan 28
This is not how journalists+editors at @nytimes should be writing about a fascist demagogue who is explicitly @ war w/American democracy. Ever.
Please function as the Fourth Estate @nycscribe @NYTimesCramer @KateChristobek
cc:
@JeffSharlet @ruthbenghiat
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This NYT piece normalizes a corrupt serial sexual assailant who sought to end American democracy and threatens to become a dictator.

“Normalization is decriminalization” h/t @ruthbenghiat

cc: @JYSexton @NewsJennifer @jessdrkn @nhannahjones @Will_Bunch
nytimes.com/2024/01/27/nyr…
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@ruthbenghiat @JYSexton @NewsJennifer @jessdrkn @nhannahjones @Will_Bunch It’s time for Newsrooms to awaken that “unusual” is absolutely terrifying and a call to action.

As @Sulliview @Will_Bunch have sounded the alarm. 🚨 Image
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