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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

washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
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 28
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
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Apr 27
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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Apr 7
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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Mar 10
.@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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Mar 10
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!

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@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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Feb 19
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..
@Will_Bunch
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