I’ve read the New York Times all my life, and I worked in the newsroom for ten years, and I’ve never seen the news department along with the editorial department commit to a nakedly partisan political crusade, as they are now. Evidently they are more outraged by Biden’s determination to continue running for re-election than they have ever been by Donald Trump.
@JamesGleick. The media should really declare its candidacy in the 2024 #election because they are definitely one of the candidates running against #Biden.
@JamesGleick Why does everyone seem surprised suddenly? The NYT was showing that bias the last time Trump ran by running attack pieces against Hillary. How about we just start ignoring anything they publish. Every outrage story just gets them attention.
I don't see these calls by quisling Democrats as true calls to push out Biden. They know it's political suicide.
Rather, they see the debate as a moment of manufactured crisis available for exploitation by opportunists.
You'll hear of back room deals being negotiated to buy a restoration of a fake unanimity in the coming days. Favors & markers are being exchanged as we speak.
Just as Pence bought funding for his presidential bid from the GOP's fascist megadonors by ...
@JamesGleick The NYT's previous nakedly partisan political crusade was against Donald Trump. You must have noticed that in 2016 and 2020 and most of the time in between.
It's starting to look like the plan is Michelle Obama, to give Barack a third (fourth?) term.
Yes there has been a collective decision to flush Biden.
@JamesGleick It's clear some big donors to the Democratic party have been waiting for an opportunity to oust Biden from the ticket. His clean energy initiatives, consumer protections, FTC actions, attempts to control health care and prescription costs, etc. do not please donors that would otherwise fund Republicans if Trump was not so noxious.
@JamesGleick@Greengordon Nobody seems to be pointing this out re:differential unfitness coverage, so: the mental unfitness of a sitting president is always newsworthy. The (insert quality) fitness of a candidate is newsworthy to potential voters. Potential TCF voters know and accept his brand of unfitness—so not newsworthy, does not change the race. But many potential Biden voters do not know or accept his unfitness, so it is newsworthy and race-changing.
If you believe that Biden can't beat Trump then Biden becomes the proximate threat to democracy that must be overcome before Trump can be defeated. You can disagree that is the case, but it makes perfect sense within its own framework.