It's a Hit

I suppose that a large enough percentage of its audience doesn't realize the motivation behind the following New York Times Hit Piece ... or, if they do, they are happy to have fodder for their next piss-on-Trump cocktail party. But this mud is quite predictable. The Times treats Republican hopefuls with kid gloves ... until they become presumptive presidential nominees. Then it is as though a pack of ravenous wild dogs have been unleashed and this presumptive nominee is raw meat. From now until election day we will be treated to unsourced after unsourced dirt on Donald Trump ... some true, some half-true and some total fabrications. Recall that this was the very same treatment John McCain and Mitt Romney got from this newspaper going into the last two elections.

On the other hand, it's approach to Democrats is the reverse. Very early on, the Times will do a small critique of Democrat wannabes (remember the Clinton Foundation disclosures months ago ... a nice piece of random journalism ... which will have been forgotten by election season.) Then for the six months before Election Day, the presumptive Democrat will get puff piece after puff piece ... and a slew of flattering photographs and endorsements. All this is designed for this previously-great newspaper to pull as many of the PR marionette strings as possible in order to get its donkey elected.

I suppose that this has been the modus operandi for as long as broadsheets have been around. Republican papers have been doing the same thing, both of them ... the Peduka, KY Grocery Shopper and the Boise, ID Vacation Planner.The main thing that bugs me about this biased process in the main-stream media, such as the Gray Lady, continue to pretend that there is no design to their subterfuge.