source: official newsletter preview, archived 13 Feb 2025 01:18:24 UTC
I’m curious what happened to the NYT.
They’ve had basically no integrity at all for years now, just kissing whichever ass they had to kiss to keep their access. Even as recently as the campaign, they kissed Trump’s ass until Harris got her initial groundswell, then they kissed her ass for a while, then when she faded they went back to kissing Trump’s ass.
But lately they’ve been more critical of Trump and Musk than almost any other legacy media outlet, and even lost their all-important access as a result and are still critical.
So what happened between then and now? Why did they finally grow a backbone at this late stage?
Just a guess, but maybe they found out that kissing Trump’s ass wasn’t enough by itself when he tried to strongarm $100 million out of them like he did with Zuckerberg, and they told him to fuck off?
I don’t know, but something sure changed, and not a moment too soon…
Probably just following the money. Right now, shitting on the two kings is trending.
I really do not get why everyone thinks that NYT has been sleeping with Trump. They published an editorial board editorial declaring him unfit (which was also the headline on May 30 about Trump’s felons tatus) days before the PA assassination attempt and thus weeks before Biden suspended, and their Harris endorsement was on Sep 30, way after this wave you speak of.
Because a tremendous amount of their coverage sanewashed his most egregious transgressions, all while torpedoing Biden.
They had a change in leadership some years ago.
I think that this is a positive. My quick skim of the material here is that it is not hysterical, and it avoids the “we’re buying Greenland” sort of distractions. It’s talking about real policy, and trying to suss out the actual impact, including digging up numbers.
We’ll see where this goes, but my initial take is that this is more-or-less what I’d like to see from media.
