Clearly even people on DU are influenced by the same GOP media machine if you believe the NYT (Politics and op-ed sections only) is critical enough of Trump.
(The NYT is still the paper of record and has a great great investigations department. It’s just their politics and opinion coverage has been cowed into false balance by GOP attacks.)
If you want to break out of that, read media outside America. Look at Der Spiegel or Le Monde (English trans) or The Economist or the non-tabloid non-conservative UK press: Guardian and maybe the Telegraph. Or the NY Daily News. Or EJ Dionne and Norm Orenstein and David Frum and Rick Wilson. THEY fairly tell the horrible truth about Trump without seeking false balance.
The NYT has been sold a bargeful of lies by the right wing press that they need to balance a pro-American party with an insane party. They are not nearly critical enough of the insanity. They normalize Trump and the GOP every single day.
For longer explanations of why the NYT is normalizing trump, read Jay Rosen (NYU journalism) or CJR or George Lakoff or Marsha Gessen or Garry Kasparov (or any anti-Putin Russian journalist).
The NYT is harming America with false balance. (NPR is even worse for the same reason). It’s sad but true.
The New Yorker or NY Mag or Wa Po are WAY WAY fairer sources towards the president today. Unfortunately none of them NYT today.
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