In other news, Mexico City is reported to be awash in bleach today, with a heavy stench of Lysol in the air.
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Too bad Margaret Sullivan is gone as public editor. This is a good chance for her successor to prove herself. She’s on the case.
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Trump will not be elected.
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Team Clinton needs to start repeating some version of this every time the topic of debate arises. Something like “the media pundits are going to declare Trump the debate winner no matter how badly he performs just as long as he pronounces his name correctly” needs to become the mantra of every Democrat and Clinton supporter from now until the last debate. Pre-shaming the media and creating an existing narrative that the bar has been dropped to the basement floor creates a scenario in which they might feel a need to push back. Might.
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This precipitous decline in quality reporting began when Dean Baquet became executive editor. It would not have happened if Jill Abramson was still the ex. ed. Hard to tell if Baquet is just a shitty journalist or if he has an agenda. May not make any difference, either way he is taking the NYT down.
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My prediction had been that–since Trump could not say anything definitive, without blatantly contradicting something he’d already said, just in the last week of “softening” & “hardening”–he would throw out so much stuff that people couldn’t tell what the hell he meant
(and that the “big speech” wasn’t really an attempt to clarify, as much as a delay from last week, when he and his people couldn’t figure out how to reconcile all his comments…and the stall pretty much worked).
So as i watched in real time, the single biggest thing I was focusing on was whether he would still assert the “deportation force” that would round up all 11 million. Well, I heard a lot of bluster, but I never heard that.
But I was surprised, as I read story after story on-line, that some people thought he did say (or clearly imply) all 11 million,
whereas, I thought he kept stressing the violent offenses (though most data shows that immigrants, documented & undocumented, commit less crimes than us average Americans) 
because he needed to abandon the 11 million angle, and i looked to see if the far, far right was mad to see him “soften” on that.
In a nutshell, I can’t get too angry with anyone who is confused over what this loud, angry man really means.
He may not speak coherently, but he’s a master of throwing bombs, but then not being fully accountable for
what was said…or implied…
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That is what really baffles me – do they blithely believe their lives as journos would be all safe and secure and not at all affected under a Trump presidency? This apparent lack of sense of urgency among them is astounding. Chasing for ratings and circulations is playing with fire in this non-normal election, but they don’t seem to understand or they don’t seem to care.
No real functioning opposition party, no real functioning Forth Estate, and the result we are seeing is delegitimization of the political process and institution. We are in trouble.
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That’s what they want you to think.
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NEWLY UNCOVERED VIDEO OF SUPER-DUPER NYT JOURNAMALIST PATRICK HEALY!!!
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Bullshit.
Of course they need to scramble as the original article clearly is showing the Times bias toward the Democratic nominee. That is not supposed to happen, it is supposed to be all equivalencies ad nauseam.
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“Not always reliable.” It seems so hard to call a spade a spade for these guys. No wonder no one reads newspapers any more.
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Yeah - getting this queasy nauseous feeling that there are elements with in the NY Times that have decided that it would be more advantageous to them to pull for Trump - or at the very least - make it as close & exciting of a horse race as possible so they can sell breathless commentary straight through to the finish
It certainly appears like the New York Times is using canned material as news that is fit to print. It is more convenient if you can make up the news ahead of time based on what you think might happen.
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It’s obvious he wrote the damn thing before the speech was given based on what his Very Reliable Sources Close to Trump told him it would say and then, having locked his mind into that groove, was literally incapable of discerning that he’d been played like a rube in a Three Card Monte stand.
And, of course, CDS.
But holy crap, I thought I was only joking last night:
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NYT can be infuriating, but these hyperventilated bias accusations are off target.
Trump is, in Ann Applebaum’s words, deliberately seeking to “confuse the information space,” say one thing and then another and then another. At some point it becomes impossible to craft a news story that achieves the necessary 3 goals of journalism: coherence, accuracy, and timeliness. Give em a break.
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Hey New York Times…how’s that dopey-changey thing workin’ out fer ya?
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That’s how the entire Bush Administration press corpse worked.
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Make that two. I just did. I only subscribed for Krugman anyway. It wasn’t worth it. I’ll have to get access to his posts another way.
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If they keep scrambling like this then they are almost in Moonie owned Washington Times turf.
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