What’s wrong with the New York Times: Mindblowing, sanewashing dissonance of headline and lede

Headline and lede from YT email news alaert  (highlight added)

What's the matter with The New York Times?

September 2024

David Leonhardt goes on the defensive.  (9/17)

Reporters drowning in false equivalencies.  (9/5)

July-August 2024

British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan sums up the sins of The New York Times.  (8/31)

Political reporters continue to amaze with their transcription skills.  (8/7)

Just when you thought the New York Times political reporting couldn't get any worse.  (7/24)

Welcome to the Club!  New York Times Shawn McCreesh is Trump's latest victim of The Art of the Con.  (7/18)

Peter Baker conducts a master class in false equivalency.  (7/16)

June 2024

But it's OK for a serial liar, unregenerate fraud, wannabe authoritarian, and convicted felon to run for president.  (6/28)

New York Times might as well be on Trump's payroll. (YOU'RE HIRED!).  (6/28)

New York Times works overtime to normalize the 2024 presidential election.  (6/26)

Are the pollsters and political reporters making the same rush to judgment they did in 2022?  (6/10)

May 2024

Apparently, the New York Times is still focused on Donald Trump's "family man" defense.  (5/16)

Four New York Times reporters promote "family man" defense for Donald Trump in hush-money trial. (5/4)

New York Times courtroom reporters party like it's a black-and-white Raymond Burr Perry Mason festival.  (5/3)

When it comes to framing the 2024 presidential election, Peter Baker and the New York

April 2024

The New York Times perfects the technique of bending over backwards for Donald Trump.  (4/18)

10 -- count 'em -- 10 New York Times reporters help Trump pan for campaign gold.  (4/15)

New York Times, 4/12/2024, page A10:  Doomsday double bill.  (4/12)

Once again, a New York Times headline writer misses the mark. (4/1)

March 2024

Leave it to the New York Times to come up with an incorrect and exceedingly lame headline.  (3/8)

February 2024

Meet Natalie Brumfield, New York Times go-to for positives about Alabama Supreme Court decision on embryos.  (2/23)

January 2024

 Times get it terribly wrong.  (1/25)

2023

New York Times reporter Peter Baker ignores Jennifer Rubin's admonition to mainstream media.  (10/3)

2019

Like many others, New York Times reporter Peter Baker got snookered by William Barr's 4-page summary.  (4/19)

2018

Dear Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, Next time please interview someone who doesn't have an ax to grind. (10/31)

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