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NYT Covers Up for Cuomo (fair.org)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a piece critical of Democratic Party support for Cuomo, the Atlantic‘s David Graham (3/3/25) wrote, “If, in order to curb the far left, Democrats like [Rep. Ritchie] Torres are willing to embrace an alleged sex pest who tried to cover up seniors’ deaths, is it worth it?”

The same might be asked of some in the corporate media, with the New York Times at the top of the list.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some things to note:

I'm sure the NYT is returning to its standard dogshit level of reporting in some respects, but they actually don't seem to be trying to whitewash anything in their Cuomo coverage overall. I'm not sure this article is accurate at all. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+york+times+cuomo&ia=web
I tried to read this article and see if FAIR was being honest even about this individual article, but I got defeated by the NYT's paywall and general shittiness. Some of their complaints are kind of suspect to me though. Like "yes they brought up the Covid deaths yes they brought up his sexual assaults but they should have done it earlier in the article" type of thing. I'd be interested to see the real article. Regardless, they're lying about the overall tone of the NYT's coverage, I think, by selectively presenting real facts.
Cuomo is setting up to run against Eric Adams, one of the most open of the open fascists, so of course the propaganda machine is going to go into overdrive trying to swing things in favor of Adams in that election
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agreed, it's a touch exclusionary and elitist for FAIR to critique the NY Times while providing only paywalled links to what they're critiquing. Any NY Times article (except articles heavy on moving graphics) can be accessed via archive.ph. FAIR should say so.

My opinion is, Cuomo's awful and FAIR has been doing good work for almost 40 years. It's good work I don't closely follow, though. I already understand that the media has its dumbshit and often bullshit preconceptions, and FAIR's mission is making sure people re- and re-understanding that, but understanding it again and again doesn't help me further.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah. Generally speaking I really like FAIR. They’ve been criticizing the mainstream media for being blindly pro-Israeli-terrorism since before the phrase “mainstream media” existed. I’m not super up to speed on NY politics but presumably supporting a sexual predator for any government office is to be avoided. I don’t support either the NYT or Cuomo.

Just, anyone who is aiming any amount of pearl clutching about how the least fascist candidate in any given election is “problematic” and we need to look really closely at and get upset about their flaws repetitively, every few days, raises a few alarm bells with me.