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NY Times editor: Not media’s job to prevent Trump from winning
The Hill ^ | May 6, 2024 | DOMINICK MASTRANGELO

Posted on 05/06/2024 12:11:50 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

The executive editor of The New York Times is saying it’s not up to the news organization he runs, or any other, to stop former President Trump from winning a second term in office this fall.

“So there are people out there in the world who may decide, based on their democratic rights, to elect Donald Trump as president. It is not the job of the news media to prevent that from happening. It’s the job of [President] Biden and the people around Biden to prevent that from happening,” Times executive editor Joe Kahn told Semafor during an interview that published over the weekend. “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them.”......

“We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side?” he asked. “And that would accomplish — what?”......

Kahn argued the average Times reader gets “a pretty well-rounded, fair portrait of Biden” and his legislative accomplishments.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bias; joekahn; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt; nytbias; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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"Kahn argued the average Times reader gets “a pretty well-rounded, fair portrait of Biden” and his legislative accomplishments."

ROTFLMAO

1 posted on 05/06/2024 12:11:50 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Do our “leaders” and “elites” partake of LSD?


2 posted on 05/06/2024 12:16:35 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It might not be the NYT’s “job” , but they’re doing it for the Democrats anyway


3 posted on 05/06/2024 12:17:09 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
I learned a long time ago that when a liberal complains or comments negatively about something they think is wrong, they are already doing it.
4 posted on 05/06/2024 12:17:51 PM PDT by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
the average Times reader gets “a pretty well-rounded, fair portrait of Biden” and his legislative accomplishments.

Is that what they're calling delusional, gaslit, pollyanna tonguebathery these days?

5 posted on 05/06/2024 12:20:10 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If a journalist or news outlet has to explain that they’re not biased against a political candidate, they are obviously biased against that political candidate.


6 posted on 05/06/2024 12:20:37 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
“We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side?”

That's pretty much the MSM's entire mission statement, and has been for decades, isn't it?

This guy is unbelievably lacking in self-awareness.

7 posted on 05/06/2024 12:21:17 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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The leadership at the Times sees the handwriting on the wall and is trying to save their access if Trump wins.

It must be really horrible in their insider polling if this is occurring.

Or, it is currently snowing in hell, one or the other.


8 posted on 05/06/2024 12:21:39 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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“We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side?” he asked.

Yes, that's what you are doing

9 posted on 05/06/2024 12:23:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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My Father-in-Law is a rich Liberal living in Connecticut. He likes a well-rounded view of the news: he doesn’t only rely on the New York Times — he also watches CNN so he gets both sides of all the issues.

I’ve tried to talk to him about this, but he thinks I’m crazy. The people in the bubble don’t know they’re in a bubble.


10 posted on 05/06/2024 12:25:35 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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In other words, “Kahn got a look at the latest polling data, and after he finished vomiting into his private toilet, he wrote this.”


11 posted on 05/06/2024 12:26:34 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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ROTFLMAO

You're exactly right to say that.

The ENTIRE article is a piece of BULL$HIT designed to camouflage the TRUTH!

12 posted on 05/06/2024 12:28:32 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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The Left never stops plotting. They have plans within plans. They play the long game and are prepared for every outcome.

My gut feeling is that with the recent NY Times article about vaxx injuries and Freddo's vaxx injury being revealed by him during a CNN interview, the Left is going to impeach Trump over vaxx injuries should he overcome the fraud in 2024. If this is true, expect more stories of vaxx injuries to pop up from other Lamestream outlets.

Fauci and Wolinsky and Pfizer/Moderna emails that revealed they knew the vaxx was harmful and suppressed it will be ignored.

The Left will go full throttle for a Nuremburg-style impeachment and argue that as commander-in-chief when it all went down, Trump bears sole responsibility.

The Left ALWAYS has a plan. Kahn's statement suggests that they know that even the fraud margin won't be enough to beat Trump, and so he can afford to make statements like that now in order to refer back to them later as an example of his impartiality.

13 posted on 05/06/2024 12:29:45 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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Not their job, its their “Avocation.”


14 posted on 05/06/2024 12:30:45 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Too little too late, idiots. The NYTimes already shot their wad.


15 posted on 05/06/2024 12:31:56 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: ClearCase_guy
The people in the bubble don’t know they’re in a bubble

An EXCELLENT FACT that you so aptly point out.

it's a very SIMPLE TRUTH overlooked by far too many Americans.

16 posted on 05/06/2024 12:33:26 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Laughable, indeed.

EXACTLY what they *feel* their job is ... they get their directive straight from the DNC.

Lying liars.


17 posted on 05/06/2024 12:38:08 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded certailetters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: packagingguy

“ Do our “leaders” and “elites” partake of LSD?”

They actually do.

Lot of drug use among elites.


18 posted on 05/06/2024 12:38:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Not media’s job to prevent Trump from winning”

LOL. He might want to tell his bosses that as well as everyone else’s boss in the media. Their product is narratives, not news


19 posted on 05/06/2024 12:40:00 PM PDT by chuckee
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Hey NYT buddy.
If it’s not your job to campaign and slant the news against president trump, then please stop doing it.


20 posted on 05/06/2024 12:43:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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