Official Tom KKKotton 2024 Presidential Campaign Thread
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You really enjoy making excuses for abhorrent behavior. The Opinion section is part of the paper and represents The New York Times. Saying otherwise is disingenuously ignorant. Allowing Tom Cotton's Drudge Report editorial onto their site isn't just poor judgment, it's promoting out right fascism.
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Cotton doesn’t have the swag to have a cult like following. Trump is a true anomaly due to his mental disorders
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He is a normie.
do we really need a tom cotton thread 
I'm not say thing I think it's right, or the right call, just this is how these people who are incredibly devoted to free press and journalism think, sometimes it goes too far. Calling a paper fascist and condemning it entirely for this is just not accurate. It's good to see the writers, like Dargis, pushing back. Maybe they'll pull it. You really think the editor of the Opinion page is a secret fascist and this is what he wanted to promote? These people have their own extremities on topics like freedom of the press and real journalism, it gives them blind spots.
Now, is the collateral damage of this too high? Probably, I'll support pulling it and an apology, but I'm not going to not read the NY Times because of an op ed.
Now, is the collateral damage of this too high? Probably, I'll support pulling it and an apology, but I'm not going to not read the NY Times because of an op ed.
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What does it mean for a paper/news organization to be "on the side of people"? That's just not what they do. They are probably the best news organization in the world, but no, they don't summarily represent the "will of the people". Why would we want them to? They also are elitist and privileged, and very New York, and do a lot of great stories, on all kinds of issues.
i didn't know this until yesterday, apparently the Editorial Board was against the iraq war, while letting journalists like Judith Miller amp it
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I never said "will of the people," you did.
What I said is they are not on the side of the people and have never been, which is what the rest of your post said
Except they don't practice this either.
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Sorry for misquoting you, (I feel you can use the phrase interchangeably,) I doubt we see any consensus here, I just don't understand why someone would A)dislike the NY Times for not being "on the side of the people", and B) think that's important, above all else, when it comes to a new organization? Invariably there will be issues at any news organization of this size, and smaller, I just don't think it's reasonable to throw out the entire thing.
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A paper supporting free press and journalism wouldn’t write war propoganda for the government like they’ve done throughout their history.
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Normies gonna normie
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Change is inevitable...
NYT needs to figure out if it wants to be "fair and balanced", or do journalism
The two are not the same IMO
The two are not the same IMO
