William Lindsey :toad:
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"When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post 'i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi,' he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him."

~ Parker Molloy

#ZohranMamdani#NewYorkTimes#JamelleBouie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-nyt-has-a-new-standard-for-whats
William Lindsey :toad:
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"[The Zohran Mamdani story] came to the Times due to a widespread hack into Columbia’s databases, transmitted to the paper through an intermediary who was given anonymity by the paper. That source turns out to be Jordan Lasker, who – as the Guardian has reported – is a well-known and much criticized ''eugenicist', AKA white supremacist."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#ZohranMamdani#NewYorkTimes#JordanLasker#WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid
William Lindsey :toad:
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"Much of Big Journalism, for example, turned their noses up at insider documents offered to them about JD Vance during last year’s presidential campaign, in part because the source was Iranian hackers; in some cases, they wrote about the hack but not the documents.

The Mamdani story, however, fell far short of the newsworthiness bar."

#ZohranMamdani#NewYorkTimes#JordanLasker#WhiteSupremacy
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