A former colleague at The New York Times once explained why he kept reading the paper even though he no longer trusted it: “I want to see what they’re up to.”
What they’re up to now is staggering. Not content with four years of biased coverage of President Trump, the Times is plunging head first into new depths of partisanship and deceit.
Just when you thought its dirty tricks couldn’t get any dirtier, it proves you wrong. A few samples from last week tell the tale.
A headline on Monday’s top front-page story said Trump “insults” the mayor of Portland while “Biden Calls His Rival Reckless.’’ Even-handed, right?
Another front-page story that day about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gratuitously mentioned that Mnuchin’s “liberal father said he was appalled by his son’s politics.”
Inside, reporter Michael Schmidt, one of the paper’s errand boys for the deep state, alleged the Justice Department secretly “kept investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.”
Schmidt shared a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Russia hysteria. In fact, the Times coverage largely created that hysteria — and was proven to be fundamentally misleading because there was no collusion or obstruction. Yet snowballs have better odds in hell than the possibility the Times will confess its errors.
But Schmidt hasn’t given up on Russia, Russia, Russia. Naturally, Monday’s article, excerpted from his book, uses only anonymous sources.
The Times used to strictly limit anonymous sources. Now they are the only sources in virtually every “scoop” involving Trump.
Within hours, Schmidt’s claims were shot down by Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. The Times ignored Weissmann’s pushback. It didn’t fit their narrative.
Tuesday’s front page was like a Joe Biden campaign ad. The lead story, without evidence, said Republicans “distorted” Biden’s record “on crime and policing” at their convention.
Nearby, a “news analysis” dispatched both the news and the analysis to deliver an undiluted opinion, with reporters writing that “President Trump has been throwing accelerant on the fire of the nation’s social unrest rather than trying to put it out …” Who needs an editorial page?
On Wednesday, executive editor Dean Baquet’s team used deceptive photo cropping to reshape reality. Trump’s visit to Kenosha, Wis., included a devastated area that looked as if a bomb hit it instead of those “mostly peaceful protests,” as the media propagandists call them.
The Times hid the devastation from readers. A front-page photo focused tightly on Trump, with no rubble visible. A separate picture of equal size showed a handful of people protesting the president’s visit. What arson, what looting — Trump’s the problem.
The Link LonkSeptember 06, 2020 at 08:16AM
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