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.”

[Dick Bachert]

Communist DemonRats inside the wire !!!
10 minutes with Victor Davis Hanson on the DEMONRAT AGENDA
Another reminder that the 2024 election was JUST THE START!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_QAGJ2XiiQ

[Vaduz]

“He’d sell a rat’s asshole to a blind man for a wedding ring.”

Democrats asking someone to their checking finger.

[clearcarbon]

"HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA"

[poconopundit]

One of best written and entertaining political columns I've ever read. This John Kass guy is terrific.

Laz, I think this guy should be made an honorary member of the:

Writers Guild of Free Republic

[Albion Wilde]

What a fearless essay! This summing-up of NYT’s 21st-century misdeeds, although we have denounced them here one-by-one, is in its entirety newly appalling.

[Albion Wilde]

Nice exaggerated click bait title :) and classy language... ...He’d sell a rat’s asshole to a blind man

I'm surprised at your post, dp. What do you deny that he said in the article?

[StACase]

The so-called mainstream media is trying to rebrand
itself as the “Legacy Media” and I see you’ve fallen
for it hook line and sinker. You used it twice in
your post for God’s sake!

Tell me, when you use the term “Legacy Media” do you
point your nose skyward, arch your eyebrows and speak
in reverent tones?

OK, that was nasty but I’ve been noticing this new
term since some time last year. Yellow Journalism is
more appropriate and ought to be used more often.

Legacy Media my A$$ !

[Wallace T.]

The term, legacy media, was a creation of alt-right bloggers and podcasts. I first heard the term on Infowars. You are incorrect when you say the traditional outlets coined the term. Blame Tucker Carlson, not Rachel Maddow.

The term was coined because the mainstream media is no longer as dominant as it had been since the mid 20th Century, when the rise of network television and the consolidation of local newspapers by large chains squeezed out locally owned, and sometimes conservative, news sources. While earlier newspaper chains like the Hearst and McCormick interests, were conservative, the second generation of these families were liberal or sold out to liberal interests like Gannett or the New York Times. The Big Three old TV networks were owned by liberals from the start, as was CNN under the leadership of Ted Turner.

What made the legacy media no longer mainstream were:
* Declining readership/viewership in both raw numbers and percentage of the population.
* The consistent leftism of these outlets permanently alienating the conservative half of the population.
* The consistent resistance from talk radio from about 1990 onward, led by Rush Limbaugh.
* Since 2010, the rise of Internet podcasts and social media as alternative news sources.
* Attempts by Big Tech and the Biden Administration to censor dissent failing.

[StACase]

The media hasn’t been deserving of the term “Legacy” since “Watergate.” Oh, thirty years ago Democrats were the red states. They didn’t like that and all of a sudden they changed colors, but not their nasty politics.

[Wallace T.]

For over 70 years the Left had defined the terms of the narrative. We can start with the denigration of supporters of removing Communists and other leftists from public life, who were accused of McCarthyism, after the Senator who was focused on Communist subversion of the State and Defense Departments. We can move a few years, when Southerners who supported states rights and racial separation were equated with the Klan and the Nazis. The pattern repeated itself with the term, conspiracy theorist, used to denigrate those who disputed the Warren Commission Report. Your citation of the 1990s shift from red to blue to describe the left wing Democrats fits the pattern.

The term, legacy, often refers someone who deserves honor, such as legacy athletes or military. However, you would not expect ex-athletes or ex-soldiers above 60 years old to perform on the playing field or military operations as they would have in their 20s. Can Michael Jordan or Troy Aikman compete in the NBA or NFL in 2025? Obviously not, as they retired two decades ago.

The term, legacy media, is synonymous with old media, since its roots date to the mid-20th Century consolidation of the broadcast and print news media by liberal conglomerates. It was the conservative, libertarian, and alt-right alternative media sources that brought the term to prominence, not the old media sources. Use of term indicates that the TV networks and the well known news sources like Time or the Washington Post are no longer the mainstream. The facts that Trump is in the White House and Republicans are in the majority in both houses of Congress and a majority of state legislatures are evidence of their declining influence. Despite the 24-7 "Orange Man bad, sexual perversion good, whites and Christians bad" narrative, a majority of voters rejected their tales.

[StACase]

Um, yeah OK. Points well taken, but if Washington Post NY Times NBC, CBS etc. start referring to themselves as the “Legacy Media” then all bets are off. And you know what? I don’t know if that’s the case or not. I’ll just have to pay more attention. Thanks for the replies.