Where is the ‘Gray Lady’ Taking Us?
The New York Times reporting of Biden’s electability: age, age, age.
Instead of focusing on Biden’s capacity to serve 4 years as President, why isn’t the New York Times focusing on the country’s incapacity to stop an insurrection?
Is it because we won’t like the answer? Or is it because The New York Times won’t like the answer? (1)
This is not a ‘circular firing squad,’ this is thin-skinned privilege at work. And in this author’s opinion, not very good political reporting leadership.
“In this morning’s Talking Points Memo, David Kurtz observed that “much of political journalism is divorced from policy and the substance of politics.” It’s all about a horse race, he wrote, while complex questions, competing public interests, and the history of an issue get distilled to “whether it’s good or bad politically.”
Today, he noted, that horse-race coverage means that “[a]n election about whether the United States will continue its two and half century long experiment in representative democracy, where a convicted felon is running to return to the office he tried to seize through extralegal means, where the specter of a new form of fascism looms on the horizon is suddenly consumed by a political death watch for the only person at present standing between democracy and another Trump term in…
