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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 222 points 2 years ago
[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 96 points 2 years ago

Anybody paying attention to how weird GOP media has been becoming for over a decade has been speculating in this direction. It's good that the DOJ has finally done something. And lol, tenet media has folded.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 69 points 2 years ago

This story was in The New York Times. During 2016 election The New York Times published thousands of stories about Clinton email/Benghazi, not one on Trumps lifelong ties to NY/Russian mob. As if The New York Times wasn't in a particularly knowledgeable position to report on 70 years of NYC construction & mob history. All the money in my pocket says The Paper of Record has been taking Russian money for decades.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

New York Times front page, three days before the 2016 election:

Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia

FUCK YOU NEW YORK TIMES

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They knew what the fuck they were doing. They're not innocent at all.

"Shoot the messenger" is hundreds of years ago. That isn't this at all.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Yup! Remember Romney saying that Russia was our geopolitical enemy and Obama being the one who called that ridiculous? Ever since then the Republicans have had an absurd love affair with Putin.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 years ago

To be fair, there was an honest gambit there with Our Pal Russia, the same one that was tried with China. It didn't work but it seemed like a fair thing to try, especially considering the economic constraints of the alternative.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, at the time Obama was right to try to repair relations with Russia. They’ve simply grown worse as they figured out how to poke at the world via information warfare.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

"Secretly"

This is the dead giveaway that NYT does not give a SHIT about all the fucked up pro-Trump shit they've pulled. Not even a little.

This is why I have zero problems when conservatives want to shit on it. "Yeah!" I say. Even though yeah usually they have something good there. Liberal media - yeah right. Fuck.

[-] vaquedoso@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with you, but let's try to not treat massive organizations as a single being. I'm sure even there some people were not ok with how pervasive Russian talking points were there. But then again, maybe I'm being naive.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

If it weren’t pervasive, ubiquitous, and predictable I’d agree with you. But it’s as close to systemic as we can measure.

Why they do it is debatable, but that they do it is not.

[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’m so glad this was top comment.

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