Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
One of Barack Obama’s election gurus, Dan Pfeiffer, recently shamed the New York Times for failing to get with the program of defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
“They (the NYTs) do not see their job as saving democracy or stopping an authoritarian from taking power.”
To which Joe Kahn, the NYTs executive editor, replied:
“It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them? I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House. We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side? And that would accomplish — what?“
Editor Kahn’s got this right. I hope he’s as pissed as he sounds because if he’d like to take it to the next step he might direct the NYTs to look harder at how the Biden Administration has flat-out adopted authoritarian tendencies.
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