New York Times journalists had launched a crusade against Donald Trump

[rayg]

I believe anyone with an ounce of brains could have seen it!.. And it was not only the NYT but other news agencies also!


New York Times journalists launched a crusade against Donald Trump during his presidency because he didn't give them the respect and regard they were used to, a former Washington correspondent for the paper claims in a new memoir.

EXCLUSIVE: Former New York Times correspondent claims the paper's 'biased' coverage of Trump was a clear display of 'arrogance and self-absorption' from journalists who couldn't stand being challenged by the president in blistering memoir

Robert M. Smith slammed the NYT's anti-Trump bias in Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent, released May 14

Smith, who left the paper in 1972, said Times journalists launched a crusade against Trump because they hated being challenged by the former president

"Reporters had a 'duty to rise above criticism and not engage in spasms of adolescent pouting and lashing out,' Smith writes

Smith said the paper's reaction to Trump's contempt revealed 'a sensitivity to the loss of power - an arrogance and self-absorption'

He writes: 'When you have some power and are treated as if you do - the way Washington correspondents of the Times are for example -

'[A] sudden, enforced diminution in your power does more than sting. It instigates a cry for revenge.'
Smith also claims journalists for the paper were blind to the appeal of Trump and played 'no helpful role in the crucial effort to bridge the divide'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ok-claims.html

[togor]

He left the paper 49 years ago.

At this point he's just someone out there flogging an opinion.

So buy his book, Ray.

[rayg]

The article was just an opinion piece but interesting in that it spoke volumes of the truth that the NYT was biased against Trump and gave him negative print all the time.. Other newspapers did also..

[JB White]

The first time Trump told the press, No loaded questions to support your fake news, the war was on. It was obvious for four years.

[togor]

The article was just an opinion piece but interesting in that it spoke volumes of the truth that the NYT was biased against Trump and gave him negative print all the time.. Other newspapers did also..

Did not Trump lean his considerable bulk into fomenting hostile engagements with elements of the press? If you call someone a dog, then beware their fangs. Nowhere in any founding documents is it argued that the free press owes a politician fawning coverage. Quite the opposite, if anything. So to the extent this is a truth about the NYT, it is a noble one.

[rayg]

Figured you would stick up for the NYT.. Libs do stick together..Lol

[togor]

Figured you would stick up for the NYT.. Libs do stick together..Lol

Well you know what they say about when people assume....

Biden coughs up 20M vax doses on top of the 60M A-Z doses we own but aren't going to use. And unlike the Chicoms and Ivan, he's not putting strings on them. So NY Times editors, in their quest for balance, find 'global public health experts' (WTF is that?) who are willing to be quoted that what Biden is doing is not nearly enough.

The difference between Biden-world and Trump-world is that Trump-world instigated negative coverage then took it personally. Biden-world just accepts that the press is not there to be anyone's friend, so Biden-world goes about its business without the need to wage war against the press.

[rayg]

Well you know what they say about when people assume....

Was not assumed....You and NYT do stick together..Lol..

[pmclaine]

The Time Magazine article thumping their chest regards the alliance of journalism, big tech and entertainment to work together to defeat Trump outlines everything that needs to be known.

The fact they actually put it in print and boast about it is the surprising thing.

They deserve our contempt.

[togor]

Was not assumed....You and NYT do stick together..Lol..

That's all you got in the way of debate points? Me & the NYT?

[lyman]

after 8 yrs of the press fawning over Barry and crew,
then the big upset when she who was supposed to win actually (thankfully) lost,

then Trump, who had likely had his fill during the election, called out the press,

so the press doubled down ,,,


now only left leaning folks actually seem to beleive a word of whatever they(the press) post, and a majority are skeptics or cynical,


re togor and the NYT,, remember togor, you think places like The Slate, and Vox are journalist (you past history)

[rayg]

That's all you got in the way of debate points? Me & the NYT?

pmclaine said it all....

[togor]

Ray since when does our country depend on only fawning press coverage of the President? Is it fair to say you gravitate to web sites that are critical of the Biden administration?

Why on earth should you have any problem with news agencies giving Trump a bad time? BTW if you read any of those sites, you'd see they're no buddy of Biden either.

I thought Conservatives valued the First Amendment, but the Trump people seem to just complain endlessly.

More proof therefore that the Trumpists are not actually Conservatives, just an angry January 6 reactionary mob, and Liz Cheney is right.

[rayg]

Ray since when does our country depend on only fawning press coverage of the President? Is it fair to say you gravitate to web sites that are critical of the Biden administration?

No.. As I mentioned many times, I read a number of the various news sites, both liberal and conservative! And I form my own opinions based on what I read, and not always on what the news says or wants me to believe!.. I'm not a mental giant but know BS when I read it. You should try reading other then your liberal sites sometimes.. Lol

[lyman]

careful Ray,
the wind is blowing and twisting in many directions,
like a spastic whirlwind that don't know which way to go