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Today's Tiedrich rant: top New York Times editor: 'defending democracy is not our job'
Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/top-new-york-times-editor-defending
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.”
— attributed to many, made famous on twitter by Andrea Junker.
sorry, Andrea — the New York Times would beg to differ. their own version of Journalism 101 goes something like this:
no, seriously. the chief editor of the Times’ newsroom actually said this.
Screenshot:
... there’s a lot to unpack here. topmost, Kahn is right that democracy has become a partisan issue in America. one side is for it. the other side is trying like hell to replace it with permanent fascism — but how fucked up is it that one entire political party has abandoned the principles upon which our country was founded?
- more at link-
— attributed to many, made famous on twitter by Andrea Junker.
sorry, Andrea — the New York Times would beg to differ. their own version of Journalism 101 goes something like this:
if Democrats say democracy is awesome and Republicans say democracy sucks all ass and Donny Convict should be God-Emperor for Life, it’s not the Times’ job to get involved with “partisan bickering.”
no, seriously. the chief editor of the Times’ newsroom actually said this.
Screenshot:
... there’s a lot to unpack here. topmost, Kahn is right that democracy has become a partisan issue in America. one side is for it. the other side is trying like hell to replace it with permanent fascism — but how fucked up is it that one entire political party has abandoned the principles upon which our country was founded?
I'm delighted with this rant because now Jeff Tiedrich is singing my song. He writes: do your fucking job, New York Times, and stop pretending that a battle over America’s bedrock principles is mere “partisan squabbling.”
Please read the rest on Tiedrich's daily blog "Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."
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... once he becomes the new Emperor. Yeah right!
He'll destroy every other news outlet in the country ... but he'll never touch the NYT.
