NY Times reporter: Tough reporting on Biden's age is retribution for refusing an interview

[wbrocks67]

It's the principle of it all. The NY Times reporters think they're above everyone and everything, that's why there's never any introspection into their work. They're never wrong, and they get wildly defensive when you criticize them. They feel above reproach in every single way. Biden's team is right, they're just patently full of themselves and think their sh*t doesn't stink. NYT has a ton of great writers and is a great paper, but let's not be kidding ourselves that they also have serious issues and it's been objectively obvious that they have not taken Trump as seriously as they should, nor have they been tempered about the Biden age issue and others.

No one is saying that A.G. is literally going to people and saying WRITE MORE BIDEN OLD STORIES! but it's clear there's a very obvious river that runs through all their coverage and its peppered by the feelings from the top.

[wbrocks67]

They put out a statement - it is frankly embarrassing

https://www.nytco.com/press/a-statement-from-the-new-york-times-on-presidential-news-coverage/

Quite frankly, the tone of this statement and the quotes from the Politico article just reinforce and prove that what everyone is saying about their coverage and how they operate is true.

How could anyone trust them to be frank and fair about things especially after this?

[wbrocks67]

Well of course. These people want Trump, because Trump is good for business.

Their trans dust-up, where the linchpin of the opinion article was a known anti-trans agitator creating fake news, shows that the NYT is an unserious outlet. It's one thing to stand by an article that goes against accepted opinion, but it's another to defend a flagrant violation of journalistic integrity as ~~impartial~~.

It's not just that Trump is good for business. This is life or death. Without another Trump presidency, these companies could go under within the decade.

Yeah I think people need to realize that this is all coming from the health of the business model. A boring president with no palace intrigue is basically death for outlets like NYT/Wapo. They'll still have tons of subscribers, but the clicks are going to be WAY down, as they are now, from the Trump years. It's basically why you see reporters acting the same way - they're pissed that the Biden WH is squeaky clean with no leaks while the Trump WH was leaking everywhere and they constantly got scoops.

[wbrocks67]

Just their last headline where they essentially said that Biden and Trump are equally flawed messengers when it comes to abortion should have been reason enough for any self-respecting liberal to cancel their subscriptions.
These people are hellbent to normalize Trump when just a few years ago they used weasel words to imply that a meeting between then SoS Hillary Clinton and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate was somehow scandalous.

Yep. Just look at the comparison of Biden being old and Trump. No objective observer can say that their coverage is fair- The Hur report had something like 80 total articles on NYT the week it blew up. The amount of articles about Trump falling asleep at his trial? 1