Why is the NY Times spreading this bullshit?

[Archae]

"Flying saucers! Yibble yibble yibble..."



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/collective-freakout-occurs-after-new-york-times-report-on-off-world-vehicles-not-made-on-this-earth/

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. Because, 90% of the time,

the New York Times is very bad at their job.

[Sherman A1]

2. Bingo

[Laelth]

3. I would suggest that 90% of the time ...

... the NY Times is VERY GOOD at its job.

The other 10%? Well, here you go.



-Laelth

[still_one]

4. True, but they aren't the paper they used to be either

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. I guess it would depend on the time period

and who is in office. When HRC was running it was almost non-stop hit pieces, while the fact that Trump was under active investigation by the FBI for ties to Russia didn't warrant coverage until AFTER he was elected. Also, if memory serves, the NYT was an uncritical cheerleader for the Iraq war.

[Laelth]

7. That was depressing, admittedly. n/t

-Laelth

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Maggie Haberman is still there

Thomas "suck on this" Friedman
Maureen Dowd who wrote, "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating".

These are people who got rid of their ombudsman when he proved inconvenient for calling them on the BS.

[CatLady78]

6. Rogue X-Files fan on staff? nt

[better]

9. What, exactly, is the criticism of the actual piece by the NYT?

I've read it, and nowhere do I see any such flights of journalistic fancy. I see reporting on a government program, the spending for which appeared in a Senate report. Overall, I see sane, responsible reporting.

And coincidentally, the criticism of the NYT on the basis of that the fact that Trump was under FBI investigation for his ties to Russia didn't warrant coverage until after Trump was elected is glaringly misplaced.

The legitimate outrage is that this fact was not known until after the election, but that's a valid criticism of the FBI for having kept secret the Trump investigation while disclosing the reopening of the Clinton probe, not of the NYT for not reporting something that was not yet known.

By all means, let's hold media outlets responsible, but let's do so responsibly.

[yonder]

11. +1. Ditto.

[progressoid]

10. They're heeeere...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213800467