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   Eric Blair (protecttruth@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 05:33:32 JST Eric Blair

   My god. The New York Times Opinion section is giving space to full-on fascist Chris Rufo to push his agenda — to push lies in service of, yes, the F word: fascism.

   Look, I try to be measured. But this is a five-alarm fire for US democracy. This is like publishing Goebbels in 1934.

   This is as bad as publishing Tom Cotton, and the Opinion editors should lose their jobs for it.

   NYT has ten million subscribers, and approximately 9.99 million do not have time to read media criticism in depth. /1

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     Eric Blair (protecttruth@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 11:45:53 JST Eric Blair

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     • Dan Kennedy

     @dankennedy_nu The thing that really gets me is the lies.

     Every person at NYT knows Rufo is lying. He does not care about liberal education.
     He admits lying. He does more than admit it, he brags about it.

     Why publish lies? Why give him space to lie? Joe Kahn, you're embarassing yourself. This is what our elites produce? You'll defend this?

     @n_stenhou:

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     Eric Blair (protecttruth@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 11:45:54 JST Eric Blair

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     We just got a small, definite step closer to a planet on fire, to the end of democracy, to return of Trump, to MAGA destruction of government. To the end of the American experiment.

     And Joe Kahn, Katie Kingsbury and Patrick Healy were the ones who did it. Kahn the exec editor, Kingsbury the Opinion editor, Healy the deputy Opinion editor.

     /3

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     Eric Blair (protecttruth@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 11:45:54 JST Eric Blair

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     • Dan Kennedy

     Patrick Healy has been harming US democracy for years, and he keeps rising at NYT.

     2006 by Simon Maloy: https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/author-nyt-tabloid-story-clintons-has-checkered-record
     2008 by Eric Boehlert: https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/nyts-patrick-healy-just-not-task
     2016 Matt Gertz https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/773862263262511104
     2016 @dankennedy_nu : https://dankennedy.net/media/why-everything-reminds-the-ny-times-of-monica-lewinsky/
     2016 Charlie Pierce https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48298/clinton-passport-scandal-new-york-times/
     2018 Matt Gertz https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/ny-times-election-coverage-2018-and-2020-will-be-bad-it-was-2016

     These aren't new complaints. But why does Healy keep getting promoted?
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     Eric Blair (protecttruth@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 11:45:55 JST Eric Blair

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     This is pushing lying propaganda into the core of the educated and corporate and governing class of the United States.

     Chris Rufo is popping champagne right now. His donors are too. Paul Singer, who runs Manhattan Inst, which pays Rufo, is celebrating. He wins. This is a huge victory for American neofascism.

     And this victory was handed to Rufo by the New York Times, now a fully complicit player in ending US democracy. /2

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 11:46:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dan Kennedy

     @protecttruth @dankennedy_nu
     I regret that I have but one NYT subscription to cancel for my country.

     (And I canceled it like half a decade ago)