If I ran a national newsroom and saw polls showing that the public was badly misinformed on crime and the economy, I’d see that as a media failure in need of correction, and I’d assign stories about how crime is down and the economy is strong by almost all measures. Just saying.

Eric Alterman, blue check Same with Henry Olsen at WaPo. And Thiessen.
Olsen is on the boards of *multiple* project 2025 orgs.

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“Documents deployed by claimants allege that Lewis [now WaPo CEO] …played a key part in “the scheme to destroy… as much of the [Murdoch] company’s historic electronic data as possible, and were empowered... to complete this task and to conceal what had taken place.”

When elites like the publisher of the NYT call something 'partisan,' they mean something very specific by it. To them, to be partisan, to choose a side & fight for it, is by definition unsophisticated. Brutish. To be on a side is to surrender your rational judgment.

Gannett fired Sarah Leach, an editor overseeing 26 community papers in four states, for talking to Poynter about the company’s plan to stop restaffing small papers.
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If these numbers were the opposite, if homicides were up 19% so far this year it would be the number one, or at least top three domestic story.

CNN media reporter on Washington press corps:

“despite the clear toll that the lies promoted by Trump and his propaganda servants are taking on American society, the legacy news media continues to largely turn a blind eye to the story.”

Terrifying part of the Joe Kahn interview: He evidently thinks the NYT under Baquet overreacted to the BLM summer, but he has now righted things. semafor.com/article/05/05/…

I’m not asking the New York Times to support Biden in its news pages. I’m asking it to aggressively expose every aspect of the MAGA threat. No more Page 1 feature stories about what the Trumps are wearing to court. Get fucking serious. 8/10 nytimes.com/2023/11/09/sty…

The New York Times has made it clear in recent public comments that it doesn't think the defense of democracy is part of its job. This failure to meet the moment is a shameful surrender. 🧵 1/10

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This article only mentions the strategists behind “the political baggage” once, in one sentence. The Washington Post reveals it has no interest in informing and instead aims to continue to keep the public in the dark about the coordinated work of outrage machine think tanks.

The executive editor of NYT says his job is to take the issue that Fox News has elevated with sensational reporting, and make that centerpiece of the his paper's reporting as well. Not what is most important, but what Fox News has elevated to the top of the polls.

Jamison Foser The New York Times easier on Hitler 12 days before WWII than Joe Biden now.