Jamison FoserMar 31, 2023
if Former President Hillary Clinton was indicted the New York Times would throw a four-day kegger in Central Park.
Show threadJamison Foser

I wrote about how this very bad New York Times "analysis" of the Trump indictment legitimizes illegitimate Republican retaliation -- and aids Trump's efforts to incite violence.

Newsletter --> https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-is-trying-to-legitimize

The New York Times is trying to legitimize Republican retaliation for the Trump indictment. Don't fall for it.

We knew this was coming.

Finding Gravity
Mar 31, 2023 at 3:40pmWeb
Show threadJamison FoserMar 31, 2023

A really common way the news media justifies bad Republican behavior is by pretending it is analogous to, and thus in some way justified by, things that it in fact is in no way analogous to.

Indicting a *former* president for *illegal hush money payments* is simply nothing like indicting a *sitting* president over a *policy dispute,* but the New York Times pretends it is.

Show threadJamison FoserMar 31, 2023

I suspect Peter Baker would say he's analyzing what Republicans are likely to do. It's labeled "news analysis," after all!

Nonsense. "Here's what Republicans say they will do" is not "analysis." Analysis requires, you know ... analyzing. Will their actions be legitimate? Are they actually analogous? Is there justification for them in Constitution, law, policy, logic, morality or popular sentiment? Etc etc.

Baker does none of this. It's an excuse, and puffery, to call it analysis.

Show threadJJ PetersonMar 31, 2023
@foser
He’s more like Republicans PR guy.
Show threadMirishuliMar 31, 2023
@foser Well, Peter is excellent at everything Puffery! I stopped reading him years and years ago.
Show threadBeeksMar 31, 2023

@foser
GOP will:

1) Project their own transgressions upon Democrats.
2) Gaslight the citizenry via the media.
3) Claim to be victims the second the slightest possibility of a consequence for their actions rears its head.
4) Put forth no governing ideas outside of tearing down anything Democrats do.
5) Tear down the republic brick by brick, never satisfied until it's all gone.

No further analysis necessary.

Ever.

Show threadJoe ❌👑Apr 1, 2023
@foser He is doing more here than just analyzing what Republicans will do. In effect, he is condemning the prosecution. He is taking sides. That is something the NYT does not permit if the reporter is taking a position that is at all progressive.
Show threadJJ PetersonMar 31, 2023
@foser Will any journalist ever do journalism about how unethical journalism at the NYT has become?
Show threaddogcanyon 🦂Mar 31, 2023
@foser Unless this former president is held accountable, future presidents will compete with their predecessors to see how much larceny and bribery they can get away with in a cascade of corruption not unlike the big city machine politics of yesteryear, when overt criminality was tolerated with winks and nods. #cspanwj #trumpindictment #politics
Show threadNormal GuyApr 1, 2023
@foser If the defeated former guy is not prosecuted, democracy would be destroyed. Destroyed is worse than tested. No wonder I dropped NYT subscription a while back.