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Politico's Shafer: Embarrassing Tweets by Journalists Are Fair Game for Exposure
Newsbusters ^ | August 28, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/28/2019 5:43:12 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

If New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger is looking for support from other media outlets for his complaint about embarrassing tweets by journalists for his newspaper being exposed, he can cross Politico off his list. Senior media writer Jack Shafer has no sympathy for that complaint as he made clear in his Monday Politico Magazine article, "Why Journalists’ Old Tweets Are Fair Game for Trump."

The subtitle of his story is even more specific and points directly at the Gray Lady, "New York Times editors don’t deserve special immunity from scrutiny for bigoted speech."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nyt; politico; poochsulzberger; tweets
Pooch Sulzberger must be shocked that his whining about tweets being exposed didn't get universal support in the MSM.
1 posted on 08/28/2019 5:43:12 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

New York Times:

This publication has throughout its history promoted communism/socialism. Lenin/Stalin, Castro, Johnson, Clintons, Obama, Illegal Immigration, Activist Judges, Anti-Bill of Rights Gun Grabbing and the whole litany of Leftist Propaganda.

Therefore, as a Propaganda Rag it deserves no credence as a source of news or analysis to current, past or future events.

It is Fake News.


2 posted on 08/28/2019 6:14:57 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

What goes around, comes around. So don’t cry about it.


3 posted on 08/28/2019 7:33:50 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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