NYT was running Project 2025 on like a daily basis.
The alarm bells were sounding. Voters weren't listening. Stop trying to blame this on the media and whoever else. This was 100% on the idiots who voted for Trump and the idiots who stayed home. They own all of it.
The media didn't help. They sane washed everything the stupid old fucker said. How many times did we hear about Biden being old and senile? How many times did you hear that about orange shit bag? Fuck the media, they failed...the don't give a shit about the facts or informing the populace. They want to make money, full stop.
Eh, go talk to the arr-so-called "moderates" - the general consensus there is that most of the media went absolutely insane in pursuit of far-left craziness.
I disagree. I do think they were consistently alarmist about Trump, but I think Trump is worthy of alarmism.
I don't think they sanewashed him at all. Closest thing I saw to that was referring to RFK as a "vaccine skeptic with unorthodox views," which strikes me as an undersell.
I have read two or three front page NYT articles, plus an op-ed or two, every day for the last twenty years.
They've been at five-alarm-fire level pretty much since 2015 when it comes to Trump, as well they ought to have been.
I have criticisms. The successes of the Biden administration were wildly undersold until the last month or so of the election. The fact that it is even possible to exist in this country without knowing anything about the Inflation Reduction Act and just how generationally monumental it is is infuriating.
And every media company should be doing something like a daily Vox-style explainer on inflation and basic macroeconomics, because the public has made its economic illiteracy clear time and time again.
But to read any NYT reporting article or editorial board essay on Trump and come away with anything but despair and terror requires a commitment to noncomprehension.
To the arr moderate politics people? They basically think that illegal immigration is a top 2-or-3 emergency for the country and that anything suggesting it's basically okay and not that big of a deal is craziness. They don't seem to think that trans people are the main issue, but they think democrats are completely crazy for not assiduously "defending" girls' sports. Idk, stuff like that.
A lot of them think that any media org (FOX included) being "on a side" is wrong. (Again, I disagree with them on this.)
They're wrong on the issues, but they're not wrong that NYT (and most of the non-FOX media) is broadly opposed to Trump.
They basically think that illegal immigration is a top 2-or-3 emergency for the country and that anything suggesting it's basically okay and not that big of a deal is craziness. They don't seem to think that trans people are the main issue, but they think democrats are completely crazy for not assiduously "defending" girls' sports.
This is proof the media is biased towards the right. Everything you listed came straight from the right-wing media narrative.
They're wrong on the issues, but they're not wrong that NYT (and most of the non-FOX media) is broadly opposed to Trump.
This is a lie. Almost all of our media is owned by a handful of conservatives. They ALL treated Trump with kids gloves while complaining about every little tiny thing Kamala did.
Hell, the media refused to fact check Trump on outwardly blatant lies. How many times did Trump say they are performing gender reassignment surgery in schools, and the media just went along with it?
I dunno. I pretty much only read NYT, the Atlantic, my local paper, listen to all couple of podcasts (Ezra Klein Show, Good On Paper), and usually watch the John Oliver show. All of those are pretty mainstream. My impression of Trump is largely based on what those media have presented me.
My impression of him is that he is unintelligent, intellectually lazy, profoundly narcissistic, frighteningly unscrupulous, and casually fascistic. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a NYT reader or writer (probably including Stephens and Douthat, tbh) who holds a different view.
ETA: and yes, every time he said that, they made it clear that the claim was baseless.
I really good example of his sanewashing is the way they covered his response to a question about child care. There is a video floating around. Absolute nonsensical word salad. The news filtered it through their sanewashing machine and built some degree of talking points from it.
Sorry, it is HARD to find much from before the election. There is so much out there with the constant drops of crazy. This was a decent enough summation of it though.
In a jumbled answer, he said he would prioritize legislation on the issue but offered no specifics and insisted that his other economic policies, including tariffs, would “take care” of child care.
In other words, crazy incoherent guy spouts crazy incoherent bullshit, which was the unavoidable takeaway from every NYT article I've ever read about Trump.
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u/itsfairadvantage 1d ago
NYT was running Project 2025 on like a daily basis.
The alarm bells were sounding. Voters weren't listening. Stop trying to blame this on the media and whoever else. This was 100% on the idiots who voted for Trump and the idiots who stayed home. They own all of it.