Veteran journalist James Fallows put up a post today on his blog comparing the front page of the New York Times on October 29, 2016 to the front page of the same newspaper on October 3, 2024.
I recommend that you open the link and see what he was comparing.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The question that comeys to mind is —
What will be the New York Times front page on October 29, 2024?
It is, after all, early days for an October Surprise …
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I thought the Dockworkers strike was the October surprise but they suspended it, thanks to Biden administration intervention
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I thought it was the opening of the indictment, but I’m still waiting for other shoes to drop.
The dismal thing about the indictment is that, though Jack Smith did NOT release it, and though it was released by the judge as a pattern of the court, Trump and the GOP started with the misinformation campaign already saying that it was released by Jack Smith as a political move–and as election interference, which is what the original crime was in the first place. But it didn’t matter when it was released because, either way, one side or the other would have reason to complain. The judge was just following court protocol.
What makes it even more dysfunctional is that Trump and his lawyers delayed the court when it could have been resolved months ago. So, as one talking head said, it’s like someone kills one’s parents and then complains about being an orphan.
But Trump thinks that, if exposing the truth disfavors him, then by definition, it is a case of election interference. Then his followers believe him. And I am sure more double-speak and coded “Comey-type” communications are coming.
They should capture some of what Michael Steele says on Morning Joe–talking directly to MAGA, put it in an ad, and run it on Fox News and in every red and battleground state. CBK
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When are high level Democrats going to go on FOX “News” like Pete Buttigieg does? This might help MAGAs with reality testing.
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Times Derangement Syndrome strikes again. The New York Times lives above the fold in the heads of too many people. As Trump would say, I’ve never seen anything like it.
I never would have noticed these “front pages” because, like 95% of NYT subscribers, and 100% of people who read NYT articles but don’t subscribe, I only use the digital version of the paper. And in the digital version, the story about Jack Smith’s brief was the first thing I saw when I opened the NYT app and went to the paper’s web site.
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Thank you for quoting Trump in this comment! Very apt!
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Liz Cheney had an October Surprise up her sleeve. She knew way ahead of The Jack Smith Brief and she did this.
Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday 10/3 in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ripon is known as the birthplace of the GOP. Cheney chose to campaign against former president Donald Trump in the Democratic nominee’s most emphatic display of cross-party support yet. Cheney endorsed Harris last month & walked out to chants of “Thank you, Liz!” She warned against returning Trump to power as he continues to deny his 2020 reelection loss, saying the United States “faces a threat unlike any we have faced before.”
Washington Post
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I come to praise the NYT, not to bury it! I have heard that anyone who criticizes the NYT is “deranged”. Like James Fallows.
I just went to the NYT website, and on the entire front page, the four most prominent stories in the top were about the middle east crisis.
There were also 3 stories about Trump – none of them particularly negative, just normalizing Trump as he goes about appearing with various politicians.
There was a single story about Kamala – ONE – and it was about her relationship with her Marxist dad!
I had to do a google search for other news sources to learn what Kamala was actually doing today – campaigning in Michigan, talking about the economy, talking with Arab Americans. I see that it’s Kamala’s fault that the NYT wants to write about her Marxist dad instead of her plans and policies and the Biden/Harris economic successes.
There will probably be 5 more stories tomorrow normalizing Trump, and another about some important Kamala issue like her relationship with her dad or maybe it will be about how she failed to convince undecided voters that it wasn’t a huge risk to have her as president. Oh wait, that was ANOTHER NYT headline today — that undecided voters just don’t think Kamala is prepared for the job.
There were 2 stories in the middle about the good economy. That will be “old news” tomorrow and no longer mentioned, just like the Jack Smith Trump indictment information is already too “old news” to be mentioned in the NYT now. But tomorrow and every day for weeks there will be stories about how voters blame Dems for the very bad economy.
The NYT definition of “newsworthy” – which I am definitely not criticizing because the NYT is perfect! – is that a NYT journalist knows something is newsworthy because voters already know about it! Jack Smith’s report isn’t newsworthy because not enough voters know about it! One article is plenty for a topic like Trump’s wrongdoing – if it was newsworthy voters would already know about it.
Voters don’t seem to know all the good things about the economy. That is evidence to a NYT reporter that the good economy is not newsworthy! It will be reported once, maybe twice, and never mentioned again.
However, is there any voter in America who doesn’t know that voters blame Dems for the bad economy? Everyone knows that voters blame the Dems. That informs NYT reporters that it is “newsworthy” subject to write dozens or hundreds of articles about how voters blame the Dems for the bad economy! Voters already know that they blame Dems, ergo, it is “newsworthy” and the fact that voters blame the Dems must be the premise of daily NYT news stories!
Just because the NYT ran 300+ stories in 10 days about how Biden is too cognitively unfit to be president in no way obligates the NYT to run more than a single article about how Trump is cognitively unfit to be president, or run any stories that even suggest that Vance’s lies are newsworthy or might make any voters questions his fitness to be president. The only voters who exist in the NYT universe are voters who question Kamala’s preparedness, not Vance’s lies.
The reason the NYT is such an admirable news organization is their brilliant understanding that anything negative about Republicans is a one day story and anything negative about Democrats is so “newsworthy” that the zone must be flooded with stories.
That’s not “bias”, according to NYT admirers, it is simply good solid journalism that is fair and balanced.
I don’t want to be called “deranged” so I can only mention that normalizing Trump, barely covering negative news about Trump and Vance, barely covering positive news about Kamala and the economy, and writing lots of stories about bad things about Kamala – voters don’t think she is prepared! – is the most excellent and perfect journalism the world has ever seen! At least since the NYT’s perfect coverage of 1930s Germany, which was even more perfect!
And oh yes, there is no difference between the multiple NYT headlines about the Democrat Oct. 29, 2016, and the single headline about Trump October 3, 2024 that was followed up by nothing on October 4!
James Fallows suffers from NYT derangement syndrome. And Trump won the 2020 election, and anyone who disagrees is deranged. Folks don’t need no stinking evidence when they know what they “know”. And James Fallows just doesn’t know what they “know”. He’s deranged, they say. As deranged as the folks who criticize Trump for no reason!
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