Breaking: The New York Times is now a “white supremacist paper.” That’s according to Sarah Kendzior, columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, frequent NBC News contributor, and writer for Fast Company. Talk about all the news that’s fit to print!
Citing the “multiple Nazi puff pieces, constant pro-Trump PR, and praise for [Stephen] Miller,” Trump’s adviser, Kendzior came to the only reasonable conclusion: White supremacy “is the guiding ideology of the paper.”
Now it might seem rather odd to tar the outlet of, among others, Paul Krugman, Charles M. Blow, and Nicholas Kristof as “white supremacist.” But it’s not that unusual a complaint. Graham Vyse wrote an interesting piece in the New Republic last week exploring the “left’s war against the New York Times.” It seems that such luminaries of the left as HuffPost, NARAL, ThinkProgress, and that guy who founded Daily Kos are all convinced that the New York Times—yes, we repeat, the New York Times—is part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
The evidence? The occasional column that argues for moderately conservative positions; a recent piece that profiled (but hardly glorified) an actual white supremacist in Ohio; and the fact that reporters like White House correspondent Maggie Haberman . . . report. It would be better, you see, if the Times reporters did less journalism and instead imitated that Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at a former U.S. president. Donald Trump may often lambaste the Times as #failing, but according to the unhinged left, he should be thanking them and possibly even putting them on his payroll.
Vyse reports that Oliver Willis, a leading blogger on the left, says the “Times ‘hates’ liberals and harbored ‘institutional hatred’ for [Hillary] Clinton during the campaign.” If the Times’s slavishly pro-Democratic party and pro-Clinton line is “hate,” we shudder to think what “love” would look like.
