Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of "neutrality"—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has issued a lengthy warning in the Washington Post (9/5/24) on the dangers another Donald Trump presidency would pose to a “free and independent press.”

You might expect this to be a prelude to an announcement that the New York Times would work tirelessly to defend democracy. Instead, Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—which, in practice, is both-sidesing—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s what some of us (including FAIR) have been saying FOR NINE FUCKING YEARS!

    But do the Enlightened Centrists with their cult of civility towards murderers and rapists listen? Of COURSE not! 🤦🤬