HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA

John Kass News.com ^ | 3/24/2025 | John Kass

[Beave Meister]

When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big metropolitan paper—when we could smoke in newsrooms on deadline, curse, tell jokes, laugh and wore jackets and ties to work—I had one rule.

I’d often discuss this rule with my political sources, elected officials, cops, city workers and others:

Lie to me just once, just once, and I’ll burn you to the ground.

It wasn’t an empty threat. Chicago politics wasn’t a cloistered convent. It was and remains a place of thieves protected by the laws and regulations that they themselves controlled. It is a Democrat Barter Town and like all such towns it is hell bent on strangling itself. And there was one top aide to the mayor who thought himself a master manipulator. Frank lied to me and I burned him.

I burned him repeatedly, mercilessly, using a line often attributed to the poet Richard Brautigan: “He’d sell a rat’s asshole to a blind man for a wedding ring.”

[Beave Meister]

John Kass used to write for the Chicago Tribune. He's spot on about the New York Times.

[1Old Pro]

American journalism has been long lost and replaced by leftist activists - it’s that simple.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Far-Left, communist propaganda is not news and the Times is not a “media” outlet. It’s a propaganda rag.

[Beave Meister]

No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that liberal rag...

[Texas Fossil]

Bump

[Wallace T.]

In 2025, the New York Times and the rest of the legacy media have become less relevant due to the rise of the alternative media. The legacy news media, the entertainment industry, big box retailers, the old line Protestant denominations, and even professional sports are in various stages of eclipse. The worst decline is with what used to be called the Seven Sisters of mainline Protestantism, followed by the Big Three networks and CNN. Too many conservatives act as if it were still the 1990s, where only AM talk radio, epitomized by Rush Limbaugh, was challenging the mainstream narrative.

[Apparatchik]

As proof of Kass’s point, look no further than the Slimes’s breathless reporting last week that Elon Musk was headed to the Pentagon to get a top secret briefing on US war plans in the Pacific. It was, of course, untrue, and didn’t even make logical sense, as the President was quick to point out.

Indeed, the Gray Lady has become a rumor-mongering old crackpot on the street corner, desperate to get anyone to pay attention to her.

[dp0622]

Nice exaggerated click bait title :)

and classy language...

...He’d sell a rat’s asshole to a blind man

[Beave Meister]

Did you even read the article? From your response I highly doubt it.

[libertylover]

Reminder: On January 6, 2021 Trump said, “I know that many of you are going to the Capitol Building to protest peacefully and patriotically”.

The next day, the New York Times’ front page headline was: “TRUMP INCITES MOB”.

[nwrep]

Isn’t this hyperbole?

[dljordan]

That was good.

[Navy Patriot]

Interesting, however, I don't believe the Times' Treason can be mitigated by even a proper apology.

Maybe 20 years at Gitmo for everyone involved would be close.

Maybe.

[SamuraiScot]

Indeed, the Gray Lady has become a rumor-mongering old crackpot

Good old NYT. That's what you do when you're too lazy to wear down your own shoe leather and report--gathering news only through gossip.

The Gray Lady has become the Gray Cat Lady.

[avital2]

“secular prayer book” - !!! well done, John Kass.

[kiryandil]

Great article!

Thanks for posting this. :)

[AppyPappy]

Major media outlets quit making their money “selling ads and subscriptions” and instead made their money by doing the bidding of wealthy oligarchs.

[bigbob]

The only good things about the NYT are Wordle and the election-even needle

[kiryandil]

Did you even read the article? From your response I highly doubt it.

Yep - it's a Brautiganism, not a Kassism.

[Honorary Serb]

Fewer and fewer people believe the NYT anymore!