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The defendants named in the suit were The #NewYorkTimes Company & #SusanneCraig [who won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2019 for her reporting on Trump’s finances], #RussBuettner, #PeterBaker & #MikeSchmidt. The complaint also named #PenguinRandomHouse, which published a book about #Trump written by Craig & Buettner, as a defendant.
#law #FreePress #Constitution #FirstAmendment #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #fascism
Things are hotting up nicely on the Legends Tour with only three weeks to go until the OFX Irish Legends at Mount Juliet (May 15th – 17th) and this week the Barbados Legends hosted by Ian Woosnam returns to the stunning Apes Hill, with a stellar field looking to claim the title won in a dramatic play-off by Peter Baker 12 months ago. Host Woosnam – a long-time resident of Barbados – will be joined by fellow Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley, along with no fewer than nine other players to have represented Team Europe in the famous biennial competition
It “amounts to a signal to news outlets to follow the #WhiteHouse line or risk being kicked out as well.” — #PeterBaker, #NewYorkTimes
The #MSM has been toeing that 🤡 line since that golden escalator ride-along.
Thanks to them and #politicians enabling the weakening/perverting of #NewsMedia for decades (eg, re media ownership, #FauxNews), it will now be tougher, if not impossible, to hold onto their profession, our democracy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/trump-white-house-press-pool-access-00206001
New York Times Apologizes For Sanewashing Trump By Sanewashing Trump Some More
https://www.wonkette.com/p/new-york-times-apologizes-for-sanewashing
And by "media," Lawrence means The New York Times.
Lawrence: The media is trying (and failing) to cure themselves of 'sane-washing' Trump
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-the-media-is-trying-and-failing-to-cure-themselves-of-sane-washing-trump-218950213932
#NYT #PeterBaker #SaneWashing #DonaldTrump #WTFNYT #HarrisWalzOrBust #NewYorkTimes
What The New York Times calls a “disputable policy assumption,” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains that that is just the Times “sane-washing” Donald Trump’s tariff lies. Lawrence explains why the media’s “sane-washing” of Donald Trump means that Vice President Harris won’t just be debating Trump in the first presidential debate, she will also be debating the news media reviewers of the debate.