Lie of the century by NYT chief WH correspondent

[BWdem4life]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219

The Times’ chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, whose stories about Biden’s age have regularly strummed a particularly sensitive nerve, told me that the administration’s frustrations over his and his colleagues’ coverage wasn’t all that unique. “Every White House I’ve covered complains about our coverage. It comes with the territory,” he said. “But because of Trump, there’s this new assumption that the New York Times and other media are supposed to put their thumb on the scale and take sides and we don’t do that.”

1. The paper legitimized Hunter Biden allegations that never showed a scintilla of evidence, pushed by Fox "News" and Trump supporters. Why? In what way was this fit for the NYT to print?

2. Publisher A.G. Sulzberger essentially claims that until he gets a sit-down interview with Biden, Biden is presumed to be unfit to be president due to nothing other than his age. This is reflected in their coverage.

3. The paper treats Trump with kid gloves to the extent that there's a widely followed account called "NYT Pitchbot" devoted to their soft coverage of Trump and their negative coverage of Biden.


But oh no, the Times isn't putting their thumb on the scale... and for the pettiest of reasons to boot. The Times doesn't care about America's future, that much is clear.

[onecaliberal]

1. That rag of fascist apologist paper should die.

[dalton99a]

7. The NYT is the Pravda of the American oligarchy

and has always been thus

[Cha]

10. Not good enough for fish wrap or bird cage.

[dalton99a]

12. I have more respect for the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal puts its bullshit and propaganda in the editorial section

The New York Times puts its bullshit and propaganda on the front page as NEWS

[Ishoutandscream2]

38. Agreed

Recommended

[betsuni]

2. But her emails.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. And clouds and shadows...

In NYT's Hillary Clinton Coverage, An Obsession With 'Clouds' And 'Shadows'

[lastlib]

3. They're not putting their thumbs on the scale---

they're putting their whole damn fist! And calling it fucking news!

[dalton99a]

4. No Democrat should spend a dime on a newspaper that routinely produces fake news against Democrats and glorifies fascism

[brooklynite]

9. "produces fake news"

Evidence?

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Evidence from where? No specific newspaper was mentioned by the poster.

It appears to be a general hypothetical statement.

[NanaCat]

24. Where do you want me to start?

Whitewater

Troopergate

Filegate

Travelgate

Al Gore 'inventing the internet'

Iraq having WMDs

Swift Boat lies

Benghazi

Hillary's emails

Clinton Cash

And not to mention ignoring the many crimes TSF carried out right under their very noses but that they somehow couldn'tever see. Repeatedly.

Maybe you don't know what credible evidence looks like, but the rest of us do.

[OMGWTF]

27. Vince Foster's suicide.

[IbogaProject]

40. This one where Reporter wrote totally false articles

They have a history of occasionally producing skewed reports. A simple one was the false claim that LSD broke chromosomes, their cited the opposite and the retraction was stuck deep on a quiet day. It still gets cited even though it's false.

Here is a selected list.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

Here is the guy who basically wrote fiction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair#:~:text=Jayson%20Thomas%20Blair%20(born%20March,and%20plagiarism%20in%20his%20stories.&text=Columbia%2C%20Maryland%2C%20U.S.

[enki23]

5. Fuck your "scale" metaphor. Try just telling the truth.

.

[2naSalit]

6. Peter Baker...

Lost all credibility with me a couple years ago. I don't think much of Susan Glasser either.

[thenelm1]

32. Yup. Every time I see that jerk on the tube...

I immediately change the channel. Completely worthless.

[brooklynite]

8. Love the irony...

Using Politico to allege the Times as politically biased?

[BWdem4life]

13. No, I used Politico to reproduce a quote from Peter Baker. nt

[brooklynite]

29. And I post articles from Politico reporting on news frequently. You know what the general reaction is in these parts.

[Cha]

11. NYT chief WH Propagandist.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. And that is exactly why

everyone I know has cancelled their on line subscription to the NYT this past month............

[maxsolomon]

15. So, they SHOULD put their thumbs on the scale?

Or they're putting their thumbs on the scale already, but for Trump?

#3: NYT Pitchbot account isn't exclusively a reaction to their Trump coverage - which is consistently negative and not "kid glove". It's a parody of how they "play it down the middle".

But don't let that stand in the way of today's 10th DU OP rant about the NYT.

[Bev54]

20. They should take their thumbs off the scale

[maxsolomon]

22. So, what Peter Baker said?

I just did a search on the NYT for "Biden Age". Most articles that come up are Op-Eds, from French, Bruni, Blow, and guest columnists. Only French's was negative and that's little surprise.

All news reporting is clustered around the Hur Report release: Feb 8, 9, 10, and then on March 8 & 9 had articles about Trump attacking Biden's age. Probably legitimate to address his age then, since Hur made a BFD about it.

[Bev54]

33. Peter Baker is disingenuous, he is one of the NYtimes reporters that has disparaged Biden

and tiviolized Trump's crime wave and Russian connections. That is putting his thumb on the scale.

[JoseBalow]

16. I thought the "Lie of the Century" was that Saddam had WMD

[malthaussen]

39. It keeps changing. The century's not very old, after all.

And if it weren't for hyperbole, rags like the NYT would have nothing to say.

-- Mal

[malaise]

17. Baker is a hack's hack

That is all

[PortTack]

21. Anyone that still has a subscription...do you question why?

[maxsolomon]

23. Why I still have a subscription?

Because my wife likes the Sunday Magazine.

[brooklynite]

31. Answer: no.

My wife and I have had a 7-day subscription since 1979. Still top of the line news reporting. Whether I like the story or not.

[JHB]

25. Let's not forget they NYTimes breaking the Whitewater story by falling for every...

...horseshit rumor about Clinton spread around Little Rock by the same people who, years earlier, had been part of the white Citizens Council crowd, and other assorted grifters and opportunists.

[brooklynite]

30. Let's not forget the NYTimes breaking the Trump tax returns stories....

[JHB]

34. We don't. But what part of that was exaggerated and misleading?

What part of that amounted to a respected news organization being led by its own pretensions to serve as a vehicle for a smear campaign?

It was a phenomena hardly restricted to the NYT. Recall the New Republic's "Clinton suck-up watch".

[soldierant]

26. I expect he actually believes that.

Because he believees (as do too many others) that making "both sides" look, if not the same, at least equivalent, is being "fair."

He doesn't realize that kind of fairness is not his job. The job of a journalist is to report the truth.

That is what we need to eliminate in jouralism, not just him. He's just one of many.

[ramen]

28. Has anyone seen evidence of claim #2?

I've seen a quote from a reporter alleging this but no reaction from the subject and no confirmation or denial from them.

[Wild blueberry]

35. Mouse Boy says what?

Not a journalist.

[hay rick]

36. The "journalistic middle" is complicit.

The article on Sulzberger:

In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency.

Sulzberger is living in the past. The Times may be first in reach and influence for its elite readership, but those same readers have a plethora of other sources available.

[Blue Owl]

37. Not much different than the National Inquirer