More tweets on the bad election coverage in the New York Times

Yep. There’s an almost irresistible tendency when doing descriptive writing to try to make sense of things we see and hear, even if they don’t make sense. Because if you write something that doesn’t make sense, the reader may blame the you, the writer. The trick is to write…
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) September 5, 2024

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the New York Times wrote a headline that read: “JD Vance Lies About Kamala Harris.”
I keep dreaming. Instead we get a watered-down home-page headline about “inaccurate claims” and an opaque, judgment-free main headline on the story itself. pic.twitter.com/JSIyJwLyje
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) September 2, 2024

From @Sulliview, who is so on target here about NYT.

An ugly case of 'false balance' in the New York Times https://t.co/Ive5vdQMhS
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) September 1, 2024

It's worth noting that in its write-up of this event, NYT didn't even mention this unhinged, false rant. https://t.co/hXeHrafZSG
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 2, 2024

Almost every day there is a headline that gives agency and the "upper hand" to Trump & enablers, and subtly or openly creates doubts about Democrats' competency. Also repeatedly casts Dems in defensive role- **as though Trump was still president.** https://t.co/1pLPLI03Fk
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) September 1, 2024

Trump is not pro-labor

He has stiffed employees for decades

Fox guest: Kamala Harris has gotten the endorsement of every major union across the country for the simple fact that she stands with labor. Trump broke his promises to workers and tried to pack the labor board with anti-labor activists pic.twitter.com/TL1Ubdsi5q
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 3, 2024

Trump isn’t pro-worker
He has a long history of not paying people

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his billshttps://t.co/Me8QZJfadW
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 3, 2024

https://t.co/vsaoPtedOP
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 3, 2024

Trump Got Rich by Screwing Over Workers—Of Course He’s Doing It Again as President

Trump made a ridiculous claim on schools and transgender people

One quick question for Trump. Who pays for the surgery? The biggest way to debunk this absolute nonsense is a health insurance company would get involved with a surgery and the parents would 100% know about it. We get bills every time we go to the doctor. https://t.co/XiXAtEIXqh
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) September 2, 2024

The New York Times and Washington Post on rich donors to presidential campaigns

In presidential politics, campaigns are powered by billionaires. Here’s a look at the most influential donors to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s campaigns. https://t.co/IHcUdxveFy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 1, 2024

How out of control is campaign spending in the U.S.?

As of August 20th, the top 50 political donors have already given $1.5 billion to federal candidates.

The top 4 individual donors gave $385.3 million. That's $1.14 for every man, woman, and child in America. It's obscene.
— Senator Chris Larson (@SenChrisLarson) August 28, 2024

1. The biggest donor of the 2024 presidential campaign, by far, is Timothy Mellon, the reclusive billion and heir to the Mellon banking fortune.

Who is he and what has motivated him to spend more than $100 million already this campaign cycle?

Follow along for details.

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— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 3, 2024

Meet the megadonors pumping millions into the 2024 election https://t.co/sbZE0LlvLh
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 3, 2024

Mind-blowing that the Democratic Party is massively outspending the Republican Party in swing states!

The Democrats have become the party of the rich and entitled (just look at their donor list) and the Republicans have become the party of the people.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024

Musk is wrong. The article notes that “megadonors skew Republican”.

150 billionaire families have spent $1.4B on the 2024 election so far.

On average, each family has doled out $9.2M in political contributions — just 0.06% of their total wealth.

The equivalent donation for a typical household would be ~$120.

We must overturn Citizens United.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 9, 2024

Another example of the media not reporting all of Trump’s lies

The Times and the Post both failed here.

You quote Republicans saying Democrats are lying. However, you didn’t include this recent lie by Trump about some states’ abortion policies. https://t.co/MOnn9qAe1A
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 31, 2024

The Times article helps Trump by leaving out his lie that 6 states allow murder of newborn babies. Here it is. https://t.co/MOnn9qAe1A
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 31, 2024

The public knows Trump won’t accept a loss

This could easily lead to worse violence than 1/6. I’m surprised 100% don’t say Trump will accept the outcome. He has made it clear that the only way he will lose is by cheating.

Two-thirds of Americans say Donald Trump unprepared to accept the election outcome.
(Steven Sparks, ABC News @LangerResearch @Ipsosus)
More, via Opinion Today:https://t.co/HS6fRqWPFb pic.twitter.com/9ZUlA3Kq8b
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) September 1, 2024

The New York Times helps Trump by not writing about some of his worst statements

NYT's coverage of the Johnstown rally, by @simonjlevien and @migold, mentions Trump's "weave" comment, but not his claim that Byron Donalds is one of the smart ones. https://t.co/f30VmOPi5n pic.twitter.com/RshQgT66qc
— emptywheel (Chuckwagon) (@emptywheel) August 31, 2024

The Times article helps Trump by leaving out his lie that 6 states allow murder of newborn babies. Here it is. https://t.co/MOnn9qAe1A
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 31, 2024

Zero front-page coverage NYT/WaPo of Trump at Arlington.

NYT did not *even mention* it in stories yesterday about Trump riff at Arlington.

Wondering what coverage would be if KH or Walz had roughed-up staffer at Arlington, in question for photo-op. https://t.co/ZpRVBoVQcA
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 29, 2024

Yes. I would like to hear @nytopinion editors credibly deny this claim — we all suspect that when liberals criticize a piece like this for cooking the facts and engaging in disingenuous rhetorical tricks, all you conclude is something like, "this piece is a success, it's… https://t.co/k607oNelAs
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) August 26, 2024

Trump made up stories about Harris meeting Putin, that 325,000 migrant girls have been sex trafficked in the last 3 yrs & posted an anti-semitic attack on Josh Shapiro but that's just going "off script" for the Paper of Record™ not grounds for calling for him to drop out🙃 pic.twitter.com/TRAotxzBrn
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) August 24, 2024

As Trump keeps getting more unhinged and dangerous, the New York Times leads its website with a horse-race story about his campaign tactics. NYT will keep covering politics as a sport until the scoreboard collapses and crushes our democracy. pic.twitter.com/pHmW0QcCuH
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) August 24, 2024

No need to name the publication.

I wonder if the person who wrote this hed and dek could name one area of "policy," even one, in which Trump is "heavier" on details or rationale than Harris.

(Not counting 'Project 2025'.) pic.twitter.com/29AREutno4
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 19, 2024

Nicholas Kristof didn’t address all of the issues about potential Trump voters

“For the sake of winning elections as well as of civility, remember that the best way to get others to listen to us is to first listen to them,” @NickKristof writes.

Read: https://t.co/JKcEVaJwLi
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) August 31, 2024

I would never say most Trump voters are bigots but I assume many are. Republicans had over 15 candidates to pick from in 2016 and they chose the most bigoted one. Trump showed he was a bigot from the first day with the murderers and rapists line. /1
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 31, 2024

Voting for Trump doesn’t make you a bigot but it shows you are willing to tolerate bigotry and that’s bad, too.

If I were to talk with a Trump voter, what could I show them to prove that Biden won? They have already been conditioned to not believe sources like the New York Times and Washington Post.

Over the past eight years, I’ve seen plenty of pieces about the need to respect Trump supporters, pieces written by conservatives and liberals, including recently in the NYT. I’ve seen zero pieces about the need to respect Clinton, Biden or Harris supporters. Have you seen any? https://t.co/FwRRoQ27ZO
— @ijbailey (@ijbailey) September 2, 2024

There's a NYT op-ed about "respecting" Trump voters, but I've never seen anything encouraging those voters to respect Democrats. MAGAs get a pass because they're "hardworking Americans" – and Dems aren't? The double standard is insulting
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) August 31, 2024

Try to understand Trump voters?
Uh, no thanks. https://t.co/NWfguIb0Vw
— Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, News Guild (@DanRodricks) September 2, 2024

Donald Trump supporters in Michigan aren’t just convinced he’s winning handily right now—they think he’s heading toward a landslide.

Any other outcome means Democrats will have cheated, they told me.https://t.co/uhriRlMpSZ
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) August 29, 2024

Republicans cite the terrible Dred Scott decision

Republicans claim Kamala Harris can’t be president based on the Dred Scott decision – probably the worst Supreme Court decision ever,

Did the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) really unanimously adopt the position that Kamala Harris is ineligible to be President based on… the Dred Scott decision?!

h/t @LorenCollins pic.twitter.com/9LZsDfWdlM
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) August 23, 2024

Lack of official information is breeding conspiracy theories on the Trump assassination

We still haven’t heard from the first doctor who treated him. The FBI took a long time to make a statement. This bred conspiracy theories ranging from ‘the assassination attempt was fake” to “Democrats arranged the assassination attempt. I don’t believe them but the delays in issuing factual information were harmful.

It is odd that Trump has not attacked the late shooter since he attacks so many other people.

Even MAGA has to admit it's strange that Trump isn't demanding a full investigation into the assassination attempt.
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) August 24, 2024

NEW: Trump and his allies are escalating a dangerous false narrative about the assassination attempt, from Dr. Phil’s show to a faux congressional hearing at the Heritage Foundation. It’s a pattern that’s been building for weeks—here's my latest on it 👉 https://t.co/HFp9e06YjL
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) August 29, 2024

NYT reports that Trump himself has been saying Democrats "tried to kill him." This lie about the assassination attempt that's being pushed by Trump, JD Vance, Trump's sons, and MAGA allies will fuel violence, according to security experts I spoke with 👉 https://t.co/yVD6xIHfk7 pic.twitter.com/WGIFgpu4MS
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) August 10, 2024

This deserves far more attention from mainstream media than it has gotten (none). JD Vance *emphasized* this lie on Saturday that Dems were behind the assassination attempt. It’s an intentional tactic—and a dangerous one, according to threat experts—as I report here 👉🏻 https://t.co/73UNsQT857
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) August 5, 2024

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: Someone who staged a fake memorial service for war dead at Arlington National Cemetery Section 60 to trick the American public is quite capable of having staged a fake assassination attempt on himself to trick the American public.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) August 29, 2024

Before the FBI statement:

I've waited a while to say this but the burden is now on Trump to show he was shot. I can condemn the assassination and still demand truth, especially since Trump is now politicizing taking a bullet. Wray has now opened the door; this is not a conspiracy theory. Wray, known for… https://t.co/1QCTeSWux7
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) July 25, 2024

Why does this matter? It goes to Trumps truthfulness, its absence never in doubt. But also more: it is essential we find out because Trump doesn't get to write our history. He was shot at, of course. But he is using it for political purposes and he has opened this door. https://t.co/o2n6NPOwe4
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) July 24, 2024