New York Times flat out admits it’s punishing President Biden editorially for petty reason
For more than a century the New York Times served the nation with its groundbreaking investigative journalism and played a fundamental role in keeping the American public informed. But over the past several years the New York Times has become known for something else entirely: a dishonest attempt at portraying both political sides as being the same, by falsely normalizing the worst of politicians and falsely scandalizing the best of them.
Everyone seems to notice it these days, yet the New York Times just keeps doing it, and almost seems proud about it. Now it turns out the situation is even uglier than we imagined. The Times isn’t just dishonestly smearing the best of politicians like Joe Biden, it’s doing so for truly petty reasons.
An unnamed New York Times journalist is now telling Politico that New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger is smearing Biden with disingenuously negative coverage specifically because Biden hasn’t done any interviews with the newspaper.
This is a stunning revelation. The New York Times is now admitting that it’s smearing the President of the United States for childish, petulant, self interested reasons. This goes beyond mere bias, and is almost more in line with sociopathy.
And yet it’s not just the New York Times. How many other major news outlets have we observed being just as dishonest in their coverage of Biden, for one bad faith reason or another? Politico, which is exposing the New York Times here, has certainly engaged in plenty of the same kind of dishonest coverage of Biden.
As I’ve been saying for as many years as I’ve been doing this, the problem with political journalism isn’t with any one publication or journalist. It’s that the entire industry operates this way. Self serving petulance is the norm. Major political news outlets will smear you for not giving you what they want. It’s not even about partisanship or which political side you’re on. It’s all just a game to get ahead, and an excuse to behave sociopathically.
If you’ve seen me write this kind of thing in the past and you’ve wondered if perhaps I was being too cynical, here you have it. The New York Times, the publication the rest of the industry tells us to trust the most, is flat out admitting that it smears Biden because he won’t give it the access it wants. That’s all you need to know about the political journalism industry – and how badly we need to force it to be reformed.
