The New York Times Shows What Happens When Journalism Becomes Vendetta
The New York Times Shows What Happens When Journalism Becomes Vendetta
By so clearly showing their agenda, The New York Times and other big media outlets appear to be strengthening the resolve of President Biden and his supporters.
The New York Times has exposed itself as a corporation that can’t be trusted. The American people are seeing the connection between for-profit, corporate-owned media and how Donald Trump is not held to the same standard as Joe Biden.
And that's why I cancelled my subscription.
NYT has been going downhill for a while now, and their slant lately couldn't be more obvious. I was a reader for years but ditched my account recently. It's not even the Biden stuff per se, but just all of the reporting quality became more about shock and drama than actual journalism. They used to be great too.
They were never great, they just started saying things you don't agree with.
Fair enough.
I feel like your screen name is an opportunity to point out Harrison Ford saying that when “all of this is over” we can have the “luxury” of examining our actions…
The whole point of Enders Game is to avoid ethics/morality…
It’s wild to imagine the cognitive dissonance in orson Scott card’s mind. He saw some things so clearly and others not at all
This is an insane take. Is this some weird MAGA blog or something? Nothing in this ramble makes sense at all.
Its Blue Maga, but basically yes. They haven't been picked up by a nation state yet, but give it a week and book mark this called shot.
Absolutely Russia is going to take advantage of Biden's cult of failure. Why wouldnt they? Its the easiest way to secure a victory for Trump: keep Biden in the race.
I have never before seen a comments section that is all trolls agreeing with each other.
I think it’s an instructive exercise to read all their comments first, picture to yourself what type of article they might be describing, what kinds of arguments it might make or what examples, and then go and read the article and see if it matches your picture.
I don't know anything about a vendetta, nor do I really care... But let me tell you, there are some very strange people in the comments of this post.
I feel like I had a stroke or something.
Blue Maga: "Don't believe your lying eyes."
What is Blue Maga?
Blue Maga or BlueAnon is the phenomenon where die-hard liberals sometimes fall into similar cult of personality, rejection of reality, and conspiracy behaviors that Trump supporters engage in. It's not an entirely fair comparison, since MAGA is way more delusional, but the parallels are definitely there.
For example, a recent BlueAnon phenomenon I've seen is people claiming that the press is manufacturing the concern over Biden's debate performance while ignoring recently released Epstien documents that show Trump assaulted a teen girl. In reality, the documents are from an 8 year old lawsuit that was dismissed, and the reaction to Biden is pretty organic. So, it's not as delusional as QAnon's satanic pedophile cabal, but it's still pretty detached from reality, and demonizes the press.
The Mueller investigation was when Blue MAGA peaked. BlueAnon peddlers like the Krassenstein brothers breathless reported on how Mueller had evidence that Putin had crafted Trump into the perfect Manchurian candidate, and it would soon be the beginning of the end for Trump. These outlandish claims, which often got reported by MSM outlets, made the actual Mueller report (which didn't prove a Trump/Russia connection, but found President could be charged with obstruction of justice) seem underwhelming, which is why it was eventually labeled a, "nothing-burger." This Louise Mensch tweet from 2017 is a great encapsulation of Blue Maga:
Its those 16 downvotes:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/blue-maga/
Its a cult that has formed around the refusing to question of Biden as candidate, his capabilities as candidate.
Its very very very similar to the earliest stages of MAGA, which found its footing in r/TheDonald. An abject denial of any conversation they don't 'approve' of, cult of personality, abusive, dergatory shaming, brow-beating to those that disagree with them, and most fundamentally: a complete dismissal of objective reality.
Its how a cult forms. We've seen it before if you were on Reddit at that time. Its like, shockingly similar to the earliest days of the MAGA cult.
I love how they're trying to imply it's just the Times causing these problems. It's those damn unfriendly journalists that made literally half the party and multiple big name elected Democrats and Democratic operatives think Biden was a problem. A real Failing New York Times problem.
Foreigners buying into the gaslighting just make me think they don't actually know many real life Democrats. My mom's most normie Democratic-boosting friend has been depression posting about Biden needing to step aside since the debate, all while giving a steady stream of Project 2025 infographics. It's not a media attack or a factional fight, it's a real emotion from across the party because we all saw what we saw.
The Party cannot fail - it can only be failed.
I love how they’re trying to imply it’s just the Times causing these problems.
It's depressing watching the "good" party support genocide and then start talking about lugenpresse.
Yeah, and Blue Maga wants you to deny that objective reality that you experience. In the same way Red Maga asks you deny the objective reality around DJT.
Its the same thing.
This troll is a moron. Thankfully it’s easy to block them on lemmy.
Blue Maga...
Yeah - I'm gonna steal that one...