The New York Times Hits Back At Trump's 'Name-Calling' Of Female Reporter

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39. How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism

https://presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel-words-to-normalize-authoritarianism/


https://presswatchers.org/category/new-york-times/



https://prospect.org/2022/08/19/altercation-how-peter-bakers-feelings-become-news/




The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity. The newsroom will go to extreme lengths to achieve its primary missions -- and one of them, most assuredly, is to take cheap shots at the left. You can see it almost daily – just this past week alone in a condescending article about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s brave defense of democracy, and a celebratory story about Trump’s achievements that likened dissenting views to "asterisks" on his legacy.

And you can trace it back to the very top: to editor Joe Kahn and his boss, publisher A.G. Sulzberger. As I’ve exhaustively chronicled in my coverage of the New York Times, the newsroom is constantly under pressure from its leaders to prove that it is not taking sides in politics -- or democracy, for that matter. And because printing the truth is seen as punching right, that requires expending a lot of effort to punch left. Punching left becomes the holy grail. https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-state-of-the-new-york



Parker Molloy, in her newsletter, points out:
When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post "i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi," he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him.