They won’t tell me who the candidates are.
Never before, we say.
I am saddened by the breakdown in professional standards at The New York Times and the lack of recognition.
They had some great moments, they had some good stories, now it’s time for them to rest and finish their final stories.
The time has come to hand the hard news baton over to a younger, more truthful media.
The New York Times has always served best as a local newspaper for New Yorkers.
The coverage of 9/11 and its devastating aftermath was often superb: truthful, detailed, and undeniably heartfelt.
Before that, the 1971 Pentagon Papers report and the Nixon administration had led Americans to believe that the Times was a newspaper of courage, insight, wit, depth, thoroughness and determination.
We, the readers, hoped they would be a better newspaper than they had been.
It was easy to forget the glaring errors of their past, such as failing to report on the actual Russian Revolution (1917-1920), ignoring the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, praising Chancellor Hitler and his glamorous mountain villa, and downplaying the entire Holocaust during and immediately after World War II.
Those of us who saw the Times take the lead in whipping up the Iraq War could not convince others that the paper was exaggerating at best and outright lying at worst, because others remembered the Nixon-era reporting and the immense anger and pain of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Times thinks they’ve done a good job covering American politics in 2015. I really think they’ve done a great job. This is in their “50 Best.” Strange.
The rest of us remember how The Times’s 2015-2016 election coverage praised Trump the celebrity candidate while ignoring his history as a failed businessman, bully and con man. The paper relentlessly ran stories about Hillary’s email server and lied about her health. Hillary was exonerated by the FBI, but Trump remained under investigation because his campaign continued to communicate with Russian operatives. The Times’ reporting would have us believe the exact opposite was true.
I didn’t subscribe to The Times until after the 2016 election because I thought they couldn’t do any more damage to Clinton and that their coverage of Trump could be improved.
I was wrong.
The New York Times, like its son Trump, has an extremely inflated sense of its own importance and intelligence – to the point that one wonders if the Times has an uncle who taught at MIT.
The Times saw Biden’s poor performance in the debate as an opportunity to attack and punish Biden, a politician who had ignored their demands to be interviewed on their terms. After all, they had lost the fun of attacking and punishing the Clinton campaign and wanted to show their strength again. But they look like a dying breed of muscle.
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After publishing countless articles attacking Biden, ignoring the wishes of Democratic primary voters, and filled with the narcissistic arrogance of their hero, the Times editorial board and leadership foolishly decided that Biden’s campaign should end.
They decided.
They didn’t ask me.
They didn’t ask you.
They ignored Biden’s direct and clear statements.
That is not a news report.
It’s trying to make news.
It’s trying to achieve fetch.
By July, I had decided to cancel my digital subscription to The New York Times, but got caught up in the Fourth of July holiday celebrations.
The Times then published an essay urging Americans not to vote.
July 4th is Independence Day.
It was an unforgivable insult. I have voted in every election I have been able to since I turned 18.
Neither you, nor your best friend, nor your “guest” writer would ever tell me not to vote.
I called and cancelled my subscription on July 5th, and I believe many others have done so as well.
My advice to The New York Times is:
You don’t have to stop everything
You can cover recipes, books, puzzles, or whatever you’re good at. Trivia.
The Times excels at trivia and funny nonsense stories.
What does the way you speak say about where you come from? This interactive was one of the most popular features in The Timesโ digital history.โ
Please refrain from writing articles, op-eds or essays about politics because you are obviously biased and frequently wrong.
No publication is going to be great in every way, and thatโs okay.
This personal message also goes to the Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, MSNBC, certain โanonymous politicians,โ and everyone else who turned their backs on Biden after one poor debate.
Get out of my trenches (except Lawrence O’Donnell, who kept his cool).
We can carry out the hard work of saving democracy without you.
This year and every year to come.
