William Lindsey Jul 7

To anyone still wondering if New York Times can disgrace itself even more than it already has in recent years, Dan Froomkin has an answer:

"The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-state-of-the-new-york

The sad, sad state of the New York Times

Trolling the libs is par for the course

Press Watch
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 7

"The newsroom will go to extreme lengths to achieve its primary missions -- and one of them, most assuredly, is to take cheap shots at the left. ...

"And you can trace it back to the very top: to editor Joe Kahn and his boss, publisher A.G. Sulzberger. …

Parts of the Times operation remain brilliant, most notably its investigative journalism and Cooking."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 7

"But its coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness."

Froomkin is absolutely right. This ugly hit piece which raises major ethical questions about how NYT does journalism is exactly what I'd have expected from NYT — and why I read it only when other sources I respect cite some of its few worthwhile reports.

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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JustinJul 8
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post 'i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi,' he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him."

~ Parker Molloy

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JamelleBouie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-nyt-has-a-new-standard-for-whats

The NYT Has a New Standard for What's Newsworthy: Whatever White Supremacists Are Pushing

The paper laundered hacked documents from a race scientist into a hit piece on Zohran Mamdani, then silenced their own columnist for pointing out their source was a Nazi.

The Present Age
Jul 7 at 11:05pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 7

"[The Zohran Mamdani story] came to the Times due to a widespread hack into Columbia’s databases, transmitted to the paper through an intermediary who was given anonymity by the paper. That source turns out to be Jordan Lasker, who – as the Guardian has reported – is a well-known and much criticized ''eugenicist', AKA white supremacist."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?

With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

The Guardian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 7

"Traditional journalism ethics suggests that when news organizations base a story on hacked or stolen information, there should be an extra high bar of newsworthiness to justify publication."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 7

"Much of Big Journalism, for example, turned their noses up at insider documents offered to them about JD Vance during last year’s presidential campaign, in part because the source was Iranian hackers; in some cases, they wrote about the hack but not the documents.

The Mamdani story, however, fell far short of the newsworthiness bar."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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Show threadJeff Shaffer CBET, retJul 8
@wdlindsy
I keep being surprised by anybody giving credence to news published by the TYTimes, it’s been at least two but more like five years since there was any attempt to provide unbiased journalism in that rag. A news story may appear, but if it reflects a truth that is editorially unacceptable then it’s colored to bias the readers opinion. Must be nice for the one who is rich enough to corrupt the former newspaper of record so that their opinions matter more than the truth, but a total loss for the rest of us
Show threadJillLJul 7
@wdlindsy #lol There's a serial sex pest, crook and pathological liar in the White House and corrupt Supreme Court Justices, and people are digging around Mamdani's college application for a "scandal". 🙄
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandJul 9
@wdlindsy NYT has ALWAYS been right-wing and white. And elitist.
Show threadMatthewchatJul 9
@wdlindsy https://mamdanitimes.com/
Mamdani Headlines

The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate.

Mamdani Headlines