NYT Prove They Are Snakes With Doctored Story About Dems and Gov't Shutdown
Just in case you were feeling rather generous toward The New York Times and the liberal snakes that work there, how the newspaper handled the government shutdown ought to have disabused you of those notions.
One headline in particular says everything about how the paper operates.
According to The Daily Caller, as the shutdown loomed on Friday night, the paper had rolling coverage of the event — typical for most news outlets.
The original title of the story was “Senate Democrats Block Bill to Keep Government Open Past Midnight, Shutdown Looms.”
This was actually a pretty accurate description of things. The Senate Democrats had blocked a bill to keep the government open — because it didn’t deal with the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (or DACA) — so a shutdown was indeed looming.
According to an analysis from NewsDiffs, a site that shows how stories on major news sites are updated, changes to the story were made throughout the night.
However, as the story reached its final iteration at 12:01 a.m. Saturday — one minute after the shutdown began — it went through its largest change.
Namely, it was now called “Government Shuts Down as Bill to Extend Funding Is Blocked.”
The current title, after the shutdown is over, is scarcely different: “Government Shuts Down as Bill to Extend Funding Is Blocked; Senate Adjourns for the Night.”
Note the passive voice. The Times doesn’t say who actually blocked the bill, just that it was “Blocked.”
Just in case you were of the opinion that this might have been accidental or non-judgmental, NewsDiffs showed editors also axed a sentence that explained things: “Senate Democrats blocked passage of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open.”
While The Daily Caller said it reached out to The Times for comment, none was forthcoming.
It’s not exactly news, per se, that The Times leans to the left. One is oft surprised it doesn’t topple.
However, when it’s this transparent, one wonders what the editors were thinking.
Were they under the misapprehension that nobody would notice? If so, well, that clearly didn’t happen. And ignoring it — as The Times appears to be doing now — isn’t going to make things go away.
If The Times wants to be seen as a credible chronicler of Washington — not just of the Trump administration, but also Congress — the newspapers needs to tell things as they are.
This was a Democrat shutdown. Period. For the liberal snakes at The Times, slithering away from that when they’ve already acknowledged it won’t change a thing.
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