According to Times editors Kahn, Lacey, and Ryan, the “people” need the Times: “They will need us to be unflinching in the face of intimidation.” Something else on the media scorecard to look for: the Trump administration “intimidating” the Times.
Kahn, Lacey, and Ryan end their November 6 memo with another channeling of what the “people” want from the Times: its traditional “sober analysis and guidance.” Some “people” who have followed the Times’s unhinged Trump coverage over the last month might chuckle over that description.
And apparently for good reason: “We are likely entering a period of change and uncertainty beyond anything America has experienced in our lifetimes.” Actually, what initiated a period of disruption beyond anything current generations have seen is enabling millions of Third World illegal aliens to enter the country, enforcing a mass delusion regarding the malleability of biological sex, ending meritocracy in favor of race and gender quotas, and setting up a collapse of the electrical grid through fantastical requirements regarding “green” energy.
On Wednesday, November 6, the New York Times issued the same parade of horribles that it has been hawking since Trump declared his 2024 candidacy: Trump will “use military force against his political opponents .
It will claim that, as the Times put it on November 6, Trump is fostering “culture wars.” (This standard left-wing trope holding that it is the Right that wages a culture war is the most absurd allegation in the mainstream media’s portfolio of deranged distortions of reality.
Undaunted, executive editor Joseph Kahn and managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan sent a memo to their colleagues on November 6 praising the paper’s election coverage.
Before the election, the New York Times newsroom had brought in popcorn and cotton candy machines, fake sparklers, and goodie bags in anticipation of the coronation of “Madame President.” On November 6, the popcorn machine stood unceremoniously in a corner behind yellow police tape and an orange rubber traffic cone.
And now that Trump has been elected again, in a historic political comeback, the press continues to lay down a marker against which to measure its own ideological blinders.
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