Republicans don’t have to check their biases at the door but those damn liberals are expected to be “fair.”
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NYT should have been suspect to you awhile ago. Their editorial leadership has rapidly gone haywire in the Trump era, particularly since the young Sulzberger took over. (It’s almost as if nepotism isn’t the best way to determine promotions!)
And you’re absolutely right, a person’s personal political biases don’t affect whether something is true or false. If the facts or surrounding context were colored by the reporters’ biases, then point out that and detail the criticism or mistakes. But simply apologizing because one of your reporters may have acted like a human and expressed a preference in the past doesn’t somehow negate their work.
This child’s view of bias and its effects is killing reasonable and productive political discussion. “Bias” by itself does not invalidate or taint anything.
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Look, there’s nothing unusual about a Supreme Court nominee’s involvement in a drunken bar fight in 1985.
But quoting a Yale Law School teacher who once criticized it on social media?
We just can’t normalize that sort of thing!
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ya tink?
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Do they regret assigning writers who hated Hillary Clinton to Butter Email stories?
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Welp …
There went MY aspirations of being a journalist —
I was reely tryin to . …
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Pathetic.
Shame on the NYT.
Ugh, no need to apologize. Plus I knew Bazelon at Yale, from which we both graduated. She has a great deal of integrity and also knows that anyone who started at Demery’s shouldn’t be allowed to serve in any position of responsibility.
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"With respect, he’s a 5th vote for a hard-right turn on voting rights and so much more that will harm the democratic process & prevent a more equal society.”
That is an eminently reasonable statement.
Sanders’ deputy, Raj Shah, tweeted that Bazelon went on record “trashing Judge Kavanaugh on purely ideological grounds, previewing her bias. This is supposed to be a straight news reporter.”
For the GOP to win it’s Soviet-style War on Reason, it needs to convince America that nobody with principles is fit to express an opinion. If Pope Francis came out against Trump’s Child Camps, they’d say the pope’s history of speaking out for human rights was “previewing his bias.” If a cop testifies against Trump in court, they’d say the cop’s service career was “previewing his bias.”
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But then there’s this, which makes me feel magnanimous toward the Grey Lady:
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I am lost on this apology - no one who has an intelligent opinion about someone is allowed to participate in a news story? Huh? Emily Bazelon has more integrity in her little finger than the entire Trump administration and the NYT editorial staff combined.
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This is why we need, on the left, to have something other than News Orgs and journalism as our only weapon and defense.
We only get their one chance reportage, and it either gains some traction or flames out. Either way there is an arc to journalism and it seems very brief and ephemeral.
AND, when a news org is wrong or corrupt or inflames the wrong people…LEFTY gets blamed and every ill that ever accrued to a NYT or WP becomes OUR problem.
No, we need a bludgeoning tool. A repeating hammer. A POINT maker. A discussion driver. An echo chamber.
The RW long ago gave up on the limited toolset of news org reporters.
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Probably should have used Judith Miller.
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How, exactly? The White House is protesting straight reporting by a Supreme Court watcher who expressed an opinion about Kavanaugh that in no way affects the facts of NYT’s reporting.
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Reality has a well-known liberal bias, so we must guard against it at all costs.
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Please explain what you think has happened here.
I’m guessing a few DC party invitations weren’t received recently at the NYT, heads gotta roll so they can get back to hob nobbing with the “in crowd” that is the GOP/money circuit.
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It won’t be long and no one will be able to report.
Did Trump buy the times?
Ah, never mind. I took a peek at the tenor of your other recent comments and I can see where you’re coming from. I share your annoyance at NYT for not standing up to the WH’s bullying tactics.
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He couldn’t possibly afford the Times. He owes Anthony Kennedy’s son’s firm wayyy too much money, and he could never get a U.S. bank to float him that kind of dough now.
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