Is it just me, or is my former employer the @nytimes working very hard to avoid connecting the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi to right-wing extremism, years of GOP hate-mongering, and the attacker’s full-throated embrace of Trump and his lies? https://t.co/NPHIftEHA2
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) October 30, 2022
How to take the politics out of it so as to protect the right. As though this is not a continuation of J6 domestic terrorism https://t.co/0n4h8upChF
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 29, 2022
If you thought perhaps NYT is saving its front page coverage of the attempted assassination of the speaker and the damage done to her husband for the Sunday edition, I fear that was mistaken. https://t.co/XPUK1Z2jy0 pic.twitter.com/OmwttQ4DfW
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 30, 2022
How numb the media has become.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022
What is going on? At the very least we know this was no garden variety burglary. It was targeted against a political leader and it was violent. And what does Boudin’s recall have to do with this attack? Nothing. @nytimes, really, what is going on? https://t.co/2zARQvFTHB
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 29, 2022
Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022
LEFT: The New York Times front page when a left-winter shoots a Republican congressman.
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 29, 2022
RIGHT: The New York Times front page when a right-winger attempts to assassinate the Democratic speaker of the House and brutally beats her husband with a hammer in their own home. https://t.co/9GOeIQExOh pic.twitter.com/j4Mr0XNxuk
Sad! 