A statement from a spokesperson for The New York Times on White House press coverage:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump (Gift Article)
In announcing plans to hand-select the reporters who can ask the president questions at many events, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.
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FAFO NY Times. F n idiots.
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This is what you wrought.
Now, what are you going to do about it?
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How about some alt-text? The NYT has no excuse.
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Oh, fuck you people. You did this. 🖕
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Complete garbage.
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Cool statement, but what are you gonna do about it?
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Maybe you should have done a better job reporting on Trump & Project 2025 during the election. Go fuck yourselves; you helped enable this shit.
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You normalized this you fatuous nincompoops. NYT doesn't hold weight for shit now. Fuck you
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“And therefore we will ___________!”
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this all you got for your customers ?
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Maybe you should give us some independent, trustworthy information for a change. You won’t find it in the White House.
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NYT, you did your best to create this monster for the past nine years by indulging Trump's antics and sane-washing his lies.
For the past four years you did your best to destroy Biden by burying his accomplishments and speculating endlessly on his age.
This is on you.
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Cancelled my long-time subscription months ago.
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As Mitt Romney said, you built this.
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Ok. So what are you going to do about it, or was that it? You guys ever think that maybe the Sanewashing didn’t pay off?
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Whoa! You guys went way out on a limb, here!
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This is why nobody should subscribe to the NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, or other gutless, cowardly, weasel publications.
You are not journalists.
You are happy, willing slaves to the dictator.
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Soooo....what are you going to do? A pointed statement isn't enough. For God's sake, you're the New York Times. Stand for something.
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It’s almost as if you should have sounded the alarm about this entirely predicable outcome long ago, instead of sane-washing an insane wannabe dictator at every turn.
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Fuck you, NYTimes.
Your shitty reporting got us here.
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But other than this statement, the NYT isn't going to do or say anything else about it. They will continue to be a reliable sane-washer for Trump.
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Keep trying to get back in the game.
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fuck all the fucking way off you fucks
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Is this it? That's all you're going to say?
My house just started up a subscription again after about a 2 year stop. But I'm going to cancel it again if you don't do more about this clear 1st Amendment violation!
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Weird to have changed tone about Trump after the election. This sort of tone might have been helpful beforehand, when you were busily sanewashing Trump’s lunacy and accepting his assurances that he knew nothing of Project 2025 (which is now well underway). A day late, a dollar short, the NYT fails.
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Is that your response? Is that it? This is lame. Your constitutional right of freedom of the press is being violated and this is all you have to say?
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And what are you going to DO about that?
Your Sternly Worded Image text means absolutely fuck-all.
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That’s it? Seriously?
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All that sucking up and what did it getcha?
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You are culpable and complicit. Damn you for pretending otherwise.
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Shame you didn't stand up for democracy earlier when there was an election, and instead became fanboys for fascists just like you did in WWII.
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Why don’t you guys grow some balls and do some real news reporting
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lol, sounds like a statement written by the Dems in committee to announce how hard they’re clutching their pearls.
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This is just disturbing for press freedom. Access now conditional on loyalty. Is this really access at all? Every legitimate news outlet should consider whether participating in this charade only legitimizes a broken system. Maybe it’s time to walk away from WH briefings altogether #freepress
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Wow! How bold and assertive. Your transparency and integrity the last decade has really been something. Start speaking blunt honest truth or your readership will continue to evaporate. You are eventually going to fall off your tightrope of appeasement.
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So you're boycotting until they change, right?
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I’m sure your trauma is great for clicks, so you’ll be ok.
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You are a bunch of fucking useless idiots, you know?
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In other words, “Dictator moves closer to creating state run media.”
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“We’re not gonna do anything about it, but it sucks”
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You'll roll the fuck over like you always do for fascists
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Covering the 🍊💩s BS sessions are worthless anyway. No one ever fact checks! Except Macron!
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Be tough!
Grow a pair and a back bone
Quit giving your lunch money to a bully
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Maybe the NYT shouldn't have sanewashed Trump so much before the election. 🙂
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Forceful statement ….😞
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Now you are worried? Give me a break.
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What, no #bothsides today?
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When will Haberman write ger article defending the decision and somehow blame Biden for it?
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Do more. WHCA
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Your wretched publication has worked tirelessly to cause this situation. There's not a single journalist left under your umbrella, and you are a punchline kept aloft by little more than a crossword puzzle.
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You are part of the problem.
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Congratulations. You played a big part in helping Trump win with your deeply biased election coverage and failure to accurately report the achievements of the Biden administration in real time.
No respect at all.
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No shit? Well, well, well, HOW DID WE GET HERE, TIMES?
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And? What will you do about it? Nothing as usual.
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Until you do something about it, you’re just the biggest fucking cowards.
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The wolves are eating your face, NYT. Now maybe you wish you would have called a spade a spade when you had the chance and not sane-washed him all the way through the election? Now the self proclaimed king shuts you out and people know you’re worthless as a valid source of information.
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And that’s all you have to say? That’s it?
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I remember when you assholes spent weeks wailing in outrage because Biden wouldn’t give you an interview. You admitted to slanting your coverage against him because of it.
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Stop reporting him. He just lies anyways. Find truthful leaders to follow and interview them for guidance and insights. Value the truth about what is happening and what is planned.
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NYT Did this to themselves.
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That shouldn't be a problem for the New York Times as they've long since traded access for evading the truth.
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If only NYT had had access to over a century of documentation about how these things go, maybe they could have seen it coming.
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Cool story bro, now what are you actually going to do besides virtue signal with no action?
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NYT owned by billionaires. 🖕🏼
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Ok susan collins
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The ratio here is really something. You deserve it.
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Lots of us warned you for a decade that this is where we’d be if you didn’t stop normalizing him and didn’t stop creating drama about Biden.
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And???????????!??!
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Oh no
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y'all gotta alt text ffs
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Oh look, the present has given you another s*** sandwich and by all appearances you are just going to eat it.
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So withdraw from the press pool! Disband the White House press corps. It's been around less than 100 years, and has no value if its purpose is to amplify bs propaganda. Time for a new golden age of journalism.
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Give yourselves a pat on the back for all the hard work you've done to ensure this outcome.
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Very, very brave statement
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And?
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This is what being ass-kissing quisling sycophants gets you guys💁🏻♂️
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Weak very weak
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And? Is that all you're going to write?
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Yet you assisted this Nazi coup at every opportunity. Fuck off
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Thank you!
Every historian would say that authoritarian regimes would never have come to power if outlets put out statements, so this is an important and impactful step by the USA’s leading newspaper!
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Y’all normalized him. Guess what? This is your FO moment after all that FAing you did.
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Leopards have been feasting on so many faces since Jan 20th 2025
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Bullshit that is just an excuse to cover up the fact that most press are too scared of standing up to Trump. If he doesn’t want you there deprive him of the minutes and soundbites . He needs the press to spread his hate and misinformation more than you need him. Grow up and grow a backbone press!
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This is a sad joke, right? How about telling people what you plan to do about this?
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Oh fuck you! You're sane washing and both sidesism during Shitler's campaign is a major contributing factor to the situation we're all currently in. Eat shit.
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I don't think anybody has confused the New York Times with an actual news organization for many years now.
If you weren't sanewashing Nazis, then your reporters were saving news for years for their books.
You made your bed. Lie in it. My sympathy is reserved for people who didn't create this.
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So what will you do??? Just stand by and take it??
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And that's why these reporters won't ask the tough questions, that are right on the tips of their and our tongues !
This was evident when he signed that BS birthright EO, with a room full of press and no one asked him about violating our Constitution !
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How about you run a story about how old he is every single day you useless fucks
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Well, turns out all your both sides-ism and outright shilling for Felon47 is coming back to bite you @nytimes.com
Cry louder. 😑
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What would you know about independent and trustworthy information.
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Good thing no one thinks you're trustworthy or independent
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Congratulations, New York Times! You’ve become Susan Collins.
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thing it, we KNOW that access will be all lies. Why bother with it? Just see what Fox says the president said, and then unpack the lie. There really is no LAW that says you have to have a "scoop" for the inanities the WH provides.
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And the New York Times will do nothing in response, except bend a knee for Trump.
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Whatchoo gonna do about it?
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The people who are liking this post are also a big part of the problem.
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LOL, a "statement," I'm sure Trump is pissing his pants. What a worthless piece of garbage this once great newspaper has become.
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Y’all were so damn thirsty for the fascism tho.
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Great job standing strong today, maybe you’d like to go back in time & rethink all the opinion pieces, editorials, features, articles, & ledes in which you promoted this regime while nitpicking & debasing democrats from the top down? Maybe consider how we got here & the role your org played?
https://today.you’d
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Yes and…?
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Blah blah fuckin’ blah
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But you helped create him and now you’re upset? Wtaf did you think would happen? Your bed is made by YOU.
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We tried to tell you. This is a consequence of your own actions. You were complicit.
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“Siri, what is ‘performative outrage’?” “This is what I found for ‘gutless ineffectiveness.’”
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And to think, all that whitewashing and you wound up in the same position
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Yawn, I got as bored reading it as the lazy person who wrote it. This paper is trash.
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Remember this @nytimes.com @nytimespr.bsky.social ?
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Why didn't you do your job before the election? You abdicated in advance and now you want to get all outraged? Have you submitted an amicus brief in the @apnews.com court case? I suspect not!
It's way too little and it's way too late!
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No shit NYT and you are complicit.
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What you doing to do about it, cowards?
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Should have thought about that during election season.
But you ran mostly trash. Corporate media gleefully wanted this. Encouraged it even.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I’ll be getting my news from independent content creators for the foreseeable future.
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And…?
How did all that rolling over work out for you?
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Y’all boycotted Obama for Fox but boycotting Trump for the AP, that’s a step too far?
And you wonder why we don’t trust you.
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Every news outlet must boycott until Trump caves. And he will. He would melt without media attention.
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And? You just gonna tweet about it?
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You guys have been among Trump's biggest supporters. You only have a problem with him now that it affects you? You deserve this 👏
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SO what it's all PROPAGANDA.
Feeling a bit like russia around here, wouldn't you say ? 🤷♀️🙄
WAKE UP AMERICA ⚠️🚨🛑🚨🛑🤯🤯
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Maybe you shouldn’t have kissed his ass for 8 years and you wouldn’t be struggling for credibility and integrity
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Tell us something we don't already know. (Or is that no longer the job of the media).
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And? What will you do? Let me guess. You will comply like the bootlickers that you are.
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Yawn. You fuckers got us to this point
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What do journalists do about it then? Will they stand in unison against this? Or ...
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Unless all of y’all boycott upcoming press conferences, this means absolutely nothing.
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Time to do something. What are you going to do? How are you going to show you will standup?
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"a statement"... so impactful. Thank you for your bravery
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And ...
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Do something! Do anything besides stand there doing nothing. Condemn him. Challenge him. Call out the centrist wait-and-see appeasers.
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DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
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Don’t cover the fotus! Ignore him and put out the real news not what he wants amplified.
Counter his lies.
A split screen would be cool. One where he lies and one where the facts are reported . Carry on.
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No alt text so fuck you but also if you don’t do anything about it statements mean nothing
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Annnnnnnnnnd………..now what?
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Well, what a strongly worded letter you just sent there, fellas. I’m sure they will quake in their boots. You guys made him what he is, you own him. So don’t go crying now. 🙄
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You are a joke
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So, who is giving him a handy to continue the mutual embarrassment kink that is literally destroying the nation? I think Sulzberger should do it.
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Go fuck yourselves @nytimes.com! You were complicit in enabling this fucker.
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Interesting time to stand up.
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Weak
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Dictator 101. Only propaganda.
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....?.... told you so...?
Whoever panders to this baboon that the NYT helped let loose on the planet is as much a fascist as he.
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What are you going to do in response, you unprincipled dipshits
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Oh so laundering a fascist dictator wasn’t a good idea NYT?
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this is the part where you tell us you're not going to the briefings anymore, right?
right?
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And you’re going to do what about it?
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“Luckily, they said they’ll pick us”
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Hold your own press conferences. With the opposition. This is what you need to do. People will be grateful.
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That horse left the barn around turkey day. But thanks for your outrage.
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Wow, really? When are you guys going to start doing independent, trustworthy journalism?
Isn’t this funny. You thought licking his ass was gonna get you in the room. You destroyed America to get there. And now you’re screwed just like the rest of us.
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Oh yes, please regale us with more puffery. NYT is pro-fascism, you can't put out a trite "We want to appear to gaf even though we don't" and erase the history of NYT.
Do better or bugger off.
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Cowards.
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Cool I hope you morons just sit around and do nothing. Un-fucking real.
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Who could have predicted? 🤯
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And now you reap the whirlwind. You sane-washed him, you coddled him, manipulated for him, covered his ass, to help him get elected, NYT. Welcome to the 'find out' phase of 'fuck around, find out'. We. Hate. You. Spineless. Collaborators. The leopard is eating YOUR face.
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You were nazi supporters then. You're nazi supporters now. Fuck off.
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Aaaand… what the fuck are you going to do about it???
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Oooh. He’s scared now.
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What action will you take to show solidarity?
How will you disincentivize this behavior?
When will you stop sending your reporters to the WH in protest?
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Maybe it's a great time to stop reporting on what Trump's administration says it's doing and report on what it is actually doing and its impacts.
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And?
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"...and we will be doing nothing about this, because we like Trump and want him to rule us like a king"
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Sooo, looks like you're going to accept it???
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What’re you going to do about it? Strongly worded letters don’t mean anything here.
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And to demonstrate our outrage we at the New York Times will, as has been our wont, bend over.
Far over.
You pathetic lilly livered collaborationists…
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We would, and frankly are, getting more, and more accurate, information about what the WH is doing from everybody but WH spokespeople. That’s just a fact. Why not cover the place on that basis?
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Weak. Cowardly.
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This is a wet fart. Do something, you feckless enablers.
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Brutal
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This is your dishwashing liquid, you soak in it!
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Why do you care? You haven't been independent or trustworthy for quite some time.
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Try harder this is worthless
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Oh no, if it isn't the consequences of your own callow actions.
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I really hope everyone of you walks around in a hotdog costume every day
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This is all your fault. You and the rest of the mainstream media caused this. Sit ALL the way down.
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Quit letting him use you to spread his lies and amplify his propaganda. Your coverage should focus on his corruption and incompetence, with a large dose of “arrest him”!
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Not “is an effort to” undermine. It undermines.
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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”. T Jefferson
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Your paper is complicit and managed by cowards.
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Nothing about how this is how authoritarian regimes operate?
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Well isn’t that just nothing
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Anakin: The White House is undermining the public's access to the news media.
Padme: So you're going to stop playing their game, and abandon the press pool, right?
Anakin: [ Blank Stare]
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