Astonishingly the NYT (and CNN) Still Don’t Think They’ve Done Enough Harm

Just like in 2016, the NYT is the ringleader in project Elect Trump. After last week’s debate no less the Times led with no less than four separate op-eds calling for Biden to leave the Presidential election and-what exactly? Some kind of fan fiction brokered convention cum cramming a 14 month primary process into six weeks-or something hatched in the heads of Ezra Klein but especially Nate Silver?

The five fire alarm freakout the mainstream media has been since is notable in many ways starting with the far more sedate, and bored response to Trump’s recent conviction on four 34 criminal counts. Having a bad debate is an instantly disqualifying defense. Being the first President to be a convicted felon-and the first to not respect the transfer of power? Meh.

Riding With Biden 2024 on X: “It’s hard to even count all the ways that dropping Biden is a terrible, awful, hideous, no good, very bad idea-not the least of which it would make our entire party look like fools. But this young dude here does a pretty good job. Read it all” / X

Seth Abramson on X: “The last 10 days have energized Biden voters more than the preceding 10 months did I guess maybe in a twisted way we owe a debt of gratitude to the cynicism and incompetence and venality and vacuousness of corporate media” / X

Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) / X

But just for pure unintentional irony it doesn’t get more rich than Brian Stelter’s whiny tweet on Tuesday evening, July 2-featured above about all these “conspiracy theorists on the Left.’. Not surprisingly this led to a lot of pushback from liberals like myself.

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John Fetterman on X: “when journalism becomes vendetta https://t.co/XUVFmy07qW” / X

Riding With Biden 2024 on X: “There’s LITERALLY NEVER a primary when you have the incumbent” / X

(2) Brian Stelter on X: “@PiperK I have seen extensive coverage of SCOTUS from every major media outler in the country” / X

Brian Stelter on X: “The sheer amount of conspiracy thinking on the left at this moment is deeply unhealthy. Example: All the people who seem convinced that CNN and other media orgs are trying to ruin Biden and reelect Trump. In reality, news outlets are merely trying to report the news.” / X

Riding With Biden 2024 on X: “2. Seriously: Biden suffered less polling damage than expected after debate against Trump (https://t.co/xVeIldyzUf)” / X

Darryn M. Briggs on X: “Quick 🧵for all Dems trying to sink Biden right now. You may think you look thoughtful & deliberate. No. You look weak. You look cowardly. You look feckless and unsure of your platform and standard bearer. News Flash: The American voter isn’t well educated on issues. (1)” / X

This, in light of, was a positive howler, truly a tweet which can only be described as a #LOLCOW. In light of the fact, that is, that Stelter’s previous 200 tweets had been about ‘Biden’s 81! He’s 81! News flash: Biden’s 81! Did I mention he’s 81?! Today there was a new guest on CNN to reveal: Biden’s 81.’

If there was anyone in the media talking about Trump’s new, absolute immunity powers, complements of his own handpicked Supreme Court surely wasn’t on Stelter’s feed. Certainly any “conspiracy theorist” complaining about the media’s pro Trump bias would be in pretty reasonable ground judging by Stelter’s Twitter page.

Counting back to yesterday-Monday, July 1 I figure I went through about 250 tweets before coming across a tweet that wasn’t about ‘Joe Biden is 81.’-that’s Stelter’s idea of proportionality.

Mike Sax on X: “Real good for democracy when you sabotage your own party to prove you’re better than the fascists-we get to be “better” the fascists get to win” / X

The Biden Accomplishments Guy on X: “The real wake up call for how immoral the media is was when a jury ruled that Donald Trump had raped a woman and none of them gave a shit.” / X

Mark Jacob on X: “Imagine if the New York Times was as aggressive in attacking Trump’s fascism as it is in attacking Biden’s age.” / X

Mike Sax on X: “I mean a lot of liberals still read it-they shouldn’t”t, everyone SHOULD cancel the NYT” / X

Jennifer Mercieca on X: “Did anyone read this Time transcript of their interview with Biden last month or nah? https://t.co/pFffAbGbF4 https://t.co/LkP2HyckOS” / X

Aaron Rupar on X: “this is insane but touches upon something that savvy pundits often ignore, which is that if Biden drops out Harris is the candidate unless she agrees to put herself through this absolutely absurd and self-destructive process https://t.co/hJge0iTwzy” / X

Will Stancil on X: “All the pundits currently saying “Biden must drop out!!” spent years saying “It’s all going to come down to gas prices!!” – because these people’s entire careers consist of just migrating from one meme-like half-insight to the next as a single herd” / X

Mike Sax on X: “This take makes no sense to me. I think there’s a decent argument the scale of the media feeding frenzy has been so large it has already hurt the party wether or not we stay with Biden. I mean every day this is the ONLY story in the news it’s another day the Trump campaign wins.” / X

Mike Sax on X: “2. You can argue the “asymmetry” makes liberals “better” but if this enables the fascists to win how is this something “good”” / X

Mark Jacob on X: “Back in February, I asked a question in my Stop the Presses newsletter: “Is the New York Times neutral on the future of democracy?” They keep answering that question In a disturbing way. https://t.co/p4TcEE9vHJ https://t.co/adldsaD7Dj” / X

(1) Aaron Fritschner on X: “Some places just wouldn’t have run stories they’re running now a month ago with this sourcing. That I suspect even now the thin Reuters sourcing made other outlets wary of picking it up because of editorial standards. But we get farther through the looking glass every day. 7/” / X

(4) Mike Sax on X: “It’s just amazing how we-by we first and foremost the media though not only them-have learned nothing since 2016. I mean Biden 18 is the ONLY story they are talking about and no one seems wonder if that’s even a little bit skewed” / X