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I used to say the NYT was great…for lining a bird cage.

But lately, it seems the NYT has proven itself to be unfit…even for bird droppings.

Via Fox News.

If you look hard enough, you find there’s usually a reason for everything — even at The New York Times.

But whatever the reason — maybe it was the story about a parasite jeopardizing fly fishing in Montana, or those Russian hackers who attacked the Gray Lady’s Moscow bureau — the latest Clinton Foundation bombshell couldn’t be found among “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”

The Associated Press scoop Tuesday found that at least 85 of 154 people who got an audience with Hillary Clinton while she led the State Department had donated to her family charity. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million and included private citizens with business before the government. It’s as close to a “pay to play” smoking gun as has emerged to date….

Yet, the investigative report appeared nowhere in Wednesday’s 46-page print edition. Coming weeks after a front-page story basically saying journalists feel free to be subjective in the current race because Trump is such a threat to the Republic, critics of the “paper of record” say it smells like fish wrap.
Despite the paper’s famed “Fit to Print” motto, “The truth is that only news that fits the party line gets printed,” said Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor who worked at the Times for 10 years….

It’s possible the Times, which like most news outlets subscribes to The Associated Press and freely publishes its content, preferred to ignore the explosive report while it trained its own crack investigative team on the story. If so, readers may soon see an exhaustive report building on the solid work of the AP.

But surely there was room, even for a truncated version, somewhere on page A-13, amid the “Election 2016” coverage. The page was led by a story declaring polls point toward a Clinton landslide, even though recent surveysshow the race has tightened to a dead heat….

Related:

Tammy Bruce: Washington Times — The legacy media meltdown over Donald Trump

Fox News: BIAS ALERT: NYT columnist calls on Google to ‘fix’ search results about Clinton’s health

The Hill: The New York Times, bias and Hillary Clinton

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  1. Maynard says:

    Yes, that’s the slogan, all the news that fit our views. Ha! The NYT is only good for wiping your feet on. That’s why people say, “These are the Times that dry men’s soles.”

  2. Alain41 says:

    The NYT public editor (ombudsman) is Liz Spayd. Long time WaPo reporter becoming managing editor in 2008, most recently editor/publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, and becoming NYT public editor just this summer. She wrote the column linked below earlier this month. It’s title is; The Clinton Story You Didn’t Read Here. Quite good, worth a read. Could have been a little stronger imho, but maybe in the newspaper world, it’s a big slam. Should be revisited now. FWIW: Slate did a column in July slamming Spayd for here first public editor column. Part of Spayd’s first column was a complaint that the NYT didn’t always allow reader comments. I don’t believe that Spayd will make any real difference with NYT, but getting slammed by Slate for your first column is a good start.

    http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/hillary-clinton-fox-email-interview-liz-spayd-public-editor/?_r=0

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