How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at The New York Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. The paper's obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, but as Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.
The most recent - and perhaps most egregious - way this has surfaced is a story about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's application to Columbia University in 2009, when he was a high school senior. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and is of South Asian descent, identified himself as "Asian" and "Black or Africa …
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