This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani’s false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react.The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.
The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens.
The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to “triggering” views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers.
The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news—and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times.
Some accused him of being a fraud while others suggested he was trying to abuse affirmative action.
The Times reported, adding:
Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)
Other candidates, like Mayor Eric Adams, went after Mamdani, and the matter has now become an issue in the mayoral election.
The Times readers were outraged to the point that the paper published a lengthy statement from the Times’ assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, attempting to explain why it decided to publish facts that undermined a Democratic candidate. Healy sheepishly explained that “When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times.”
It did not help. Much like the infamous Cotton scandal, where editors were fired for allowing a Republican senator to print an opposing view on riots, writers and pundits demanded firings or attacked the journalists.
One such response came from Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who attacked the journalists themselves. Not surprisingly, the attack appropriately came on BlueSky, a social media site designed to be a safe place for liberals who do not want to be triggered by opposing views.
Bouie slammed Times reporter, Benjamin Ryan, as stupid, claiming, “Everything I have seen about him screams a guy with little to no actual brain activity.”
After that outrageous attack, Bouie deleted the post, explaining, “I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.”
Bouie seems to view Ryan as simply stupid for publishing the truth about the leading candidate for mayor lying about his race. It is the ultimate expression of advocacy journalism. Apparently, the Times should have killed the story to keep readers from knowing about Mamdani’s prior false claim.
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss the radical shift in American journalism that occurred with the rejection of neutrality and objectivity in favor of advocacy journalism. J-schools now teach that objectivity is a dated concept. As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has explained, “All journalism is activism.”
After interviewing more than 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, detailed how media leaders view neutrality and objectivity as dated concepts that inhibit social and political agendas.
The problem is that once readers become accustomed to an echo chamber, exposure to opposing facts triggers rage.
That was evident among pundits and commentators like former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who declared, “Your absolute abrogation of the NYT standards would in a better era there have led the full range of you in management to resign. Utter failure. Then again, if you don’t realize NYT is perceived as actively campaigning against Mamdani, you’re all lost anyway.”
Ironically, the opposition to Mamdani by some liberals over his anti-Israeli views is being cited as the only reason that the Times would run such a story opposing a leading Democratic candidate. It raises an even more chilling prospect that, absent such a division among Times readers, this story might not have been published.
I hope that that is not true. As many on the left breathe into paper bags from the exposure to an opposing view in the Times, this could prove an important cultural moment for a newspaper that has led the industry toward advocacy journalism.
Many of us still hope that the Times and papers like the Washington Post will still reject advocacy journalism and move back toward objective journalism. However, as this latest controversy demonstrates, that revival will be difficult after years of hiring writers and editors who view neutrality as a relic of journalism.
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump wrote on Sunday. “He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States.”
Once again trump shows us all how stupid he is. “…despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States.”
Ever hear of Theadore Rosevelt?
That would be President Theadore Rosevelt to you trump.
Learn how to spell!
TR’s Bull Moose party did not succeed. TR list that election (1912).
ROSEVELT? ha ha ha ha ha
I have never made a mistake in my life.
I will throw the first stone, nay, the second, evidently.
THEADORE? 2 mistakes! ha ha ha ha
lol you idiot learn how to f’n spell
Theodore Roosevelt threw the 2012 election to ardent racist/segregationist Woodrow Wilson by splitting the Republican vote with his vanity project, the Bull Moose Party. Roosevelt demonstrates Trump’s point: third parties can spoil elections, but not win them, at the national level.
Tracy Morgan referred to Charlize Theron as “African American”
Who the —- is Tracy Morgan?
LAME as usual from a LIBTARD!
Mamdani
Madman!
OT: Wonderful news:
In an ideological earthquake, five prominent sheiks in Hebron, a longtime stronghold of anti-Israel sentiment in Judea and Samaria, now seek peace with Israel, recognition of its statehood, and a break from the Palestinian Authority. They are calling for a no-terrorism policy and a future of coexistence.
This is explosive because it comes from within Palestinian society itself and is not imposed by outside powers. It shatters the illusion that the PA speaks for all Arabs under its rule.
Thank you, President Trump. This never happened in 78 years of war. Your bold leadership made the Abraham Accords possible. The change you set in motion is still unfolding, and even Hebron is now echoing that vision. You will be among the greatest American Presidents ever to lead America. Check out JNS or Wsj
It sounds promising. Read more here:
https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/hebron-sheikhs-propose-peace-israel-recognition
I had heard of this plan more than once, directly from Mordechai Kedar himself some time ago but I didn’t realize how close it was to becoming a reality. He often spoke about the idea of separate emirates, and I found it very appealing. Is there another emirate appearing on the horizon?
Wait, you know Dr. Kedar personally? I believe you must be much more connected and in the loop than me: all I know is what I read in the news reports such as the one I linked to above.
I know Dr. Kadar and have spoken to him, but I do not know him in a personal sense. Remember, mine is a relatively small community, so what happens there and elsewhere directly affects me or my friends. What we discuss is very personal to me.
On Tuesday, two of my friends’ children are moving to Israel permanently, and several friends will return from their Israeli homes toward the end of summer. They were there when the bombings occurred. My grandson’s trip was cancelled because of the 12-day war. This would have been his second trip. He was going to work as an EMT in Israel, but will go later. For all I know, he might join the IDF at a later date. He wants to attend medical school.
When it comes to Israel, I take things very personally.
Kansas, I just got this from another: Rabbi read in Shabbat sermon:
An excellent article by Alister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
And He’s keeping them still.
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Thank you for this Meyer. It is very well said.
“It’s the [Einstein Thing], stupid!”
– James Carville
S. Meyer: Rather, the Ashkenazi and near relatives simply have the best brains. By natural selection in the face of adversity and maybe by diet.
Thus I include Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman and many another top scientist.
Well, considering this can’t actually be attributed to ALLISTER Heath, you might want to reconsider all your sources of information….
Checkster, you might want to put on your glasses or use a dictionary to discover the meaning of the word, another.
My attribution was in the initial phrase introducing a well-written piece.
“Kansas, I just got this from another:”
These sheiks might now be assassinated.
“From the Jordan to the Sea.”
Anything is possible, but the leader represents over 550,000 in Hebron, and Hebron is over 700,000 in population. Jara’bani(?sp) represents a conglomerate of Sheiks.
What is your point?
*. A note: Advocacy journalism is simply propaganda. Progressives don’t use the word because computers will research it. Say propaganda. NYT is propaganda.
Conservative talk radio has turned into babble and noise. Try listening to it. It’s very unhealthy.
So there was y2k. Then 911. Next Buraq and now mandamni has become a household word.
OT
Well played.
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Jonathan: ICE Barbie HSS Secy Kristi Noem is almost under water herself. She is having a hard time explaining why so many people died in the Texas hill country flooding. The death toll is now 67 and climbing. Why did residents get so little advance warning? Noem blames it on “ancient” technology. What a cop out!
What was the real reason the DJT regime failed to keep people safe? DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at NOAA and the NWS earlier this year. That alone left 122 NWS offices across the US understaffed and not able to operate 24/7. Weather balloons didn’t go up and over 800 meteorologists were laid off. Last month, DJT announced plans to begin phasing out FEMA. Disaster relief funds will be doled out by the WH. That means DJT can decide who is entitled to relief. He can decide to deny disaster relief funding to states that don’t go along with his political priorities–like Gov. “Newscum” in California. DJT is weaponizing everything, even disaster relief!
So for the MAGA crowd out there on this blog who live in hurricane alley don’t expect much help when the next category 4 or 5 strikes your homes and businesses. You will get a lot of “thoughts and prayers” from DJT but not much else. My advice? Buy pairs of hip waders and keep your head down. It’s going to be a rough ride the next 31/2 years!
The DOGE team attacked NOAA and NWB because of…..”global warming”. All emotional decisionmaking, based on indulging negative emotions, and guilt by association. This are not the “pragmatists” they claim to be. They are know-nothing ideologues, driven by tribal performatives and obseqeous obedience to their cult leader. How can you claim to value dissent while using HR powers to crush it?
“They are know-nothing ideologues, driven by tribal performatives and obseqeous obedience to their cult leader.”
You still lighting the candles on your Obama shrine every night?
Wrong guess. Obama had a disastrous 2nd term. I want to see America great again. Trump is outstanding on the southern border. But he’s oblivious to visa overstays. A more professional admin would know they have to tackle BOTH with the same determination. And what is Trump doing about cybercrime? He doesn’t even think it’s a problem? Even after Truth Social was hacked! I hope that wakes him up to the daily foreign cyber attacks.
All of Obama’s terms were disasters, especially his illegal third term. Thankfully we stopped the attempted illegal fourth term from happening.
So the answer is yes, you still light the candles on your Obama shrine nightly. Gotcha.
“My advice?”
Nobody cares, you tedious waste of time. Get your own blog.
All you do is lie dennis…
Try again
It’s so funny that the people who claim Trump is a misogynist are the same ones thatuse the term ice Barbie
The NWS issued flood watches & warnings starting at 12 hours before the flooding began. It appears that these warnings were not taken seriously enough by residents, parents, camp staff, etc.
While there is much speculation (like yours) that cuts in probationary positions & early retirements left positions unfilled, there is no evidence to date that warnings were delayed or insufficient due to any staffing changes. Indeed, the NWS San Antonio/Austin Office bumped staffing up from 2 to 5 persons for this weather event.
So let’s see. He sought to explain his “complex” family history which is not complex at all and is really somewhat pedestrian. Parents are both Indian and he was born in Uganda and lived there 5 years then moved to South Africa for 2 years then moved to the New York area and his entire education after age 7 was upper northeast and he has lived in NY ever since. OK.
My Family was of Scottish, Irish, English, French ancestry and they all hated each other and were constantly at war with each other. My mother-in-law spoke only German till 12 and one great grandmother spoke only French and her son (my grandad) was bilingual. Later we added Taiwan and Portugal to the fold.
By the age of 8, I had made 2 transits of the Pacific Ocean, and 1 of the Atlantic Ocean in US Army Transports, lived on 3 continents of Asia,N. America, and Europe. Flew over the Atlantic from Frankfort, Germany to Washington D.C. in a C54 4 engined prop medical flight in 1956. I Lived in Yokohama Japan, San Luis Obispo, Ca., Mainz, Kaiserslautern and Mannheim, Germany, Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., Houston and Dallas Tex, Cities in Illinois and Indiana. Education was Atlanta & Augusta, Ga and then Houston Tex. My family were not privileged by any stretch of the imagination and many were outright poor. One uncle went to college and no one else prior to my generation. Spare me this somewhat pedestrian life of this mayoral candidate and somewhat narrow outlook. I am not impressed.
I am sure there are readers of this column who have done more and lived more places than this candidate.
I have had patients, friends, colleagues who have been even further afield and done far more in more places elsewhere than me and are of all sorts of ethnicities and races spanning 5 continents including staffing hospitals in Kenya and medical outreach in Haiti and other places in the Caribbean and South America.
New York is not the center of the world or even of the US and it grows less important day by day.
Is the New York Times even relevant any more with a view that seems to only encompass the 5 Boroughs.
GEB, none of the reporting is true. Zohran’s father Mahmoud was expelled in 1972.
It’s all a lie just like Buraq. In some ugly nightmare we’re living Buraq’s father’s dream. This is an Islamic nightmare. It’s one time I can honestly say go back to your moslem nations. 😏. On and on with the Jewish hatred.
Hey, look on the bright side. We know their hearts now. What pains in the neck.
The New York Times has always struck me as the ‘De Facto’ print news publishing outlet of the FBI/CIA/Dept. of State … the de jure Narrative Generator.
a.k.a.: John Brennan’s Blog
So feel free to line the bottom of your Bird Cage or Cat Litter Box if it should land at your doorstep.
Newspapers and news shows are SUPPOSED to cover the news – ALL NEWS, the good, the bad and the ugly. If people are too sensitive to handle reality, too bad. That’s on the. They need to grow up.
Croney Island
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LAME!
I can’t work the “like” button.
Judge Mental, Your Honor.
The article, the public reaction, Professor Turley’s comments, and comments in this blog are revealing that the concept of “Black or African-American” has multiple interpretations. I happen to think that Mr Mamdani, however wretched his politics, was truthful in his application. It one wanted to be scientific about it, based on the African Genesis theory all Americans can legitimately claim to be “African-American” though clearly that was not the intent of that categorization. American racial and ethnic demographics have always been complex at the edges and as Mr. Mamdani’s ancestry illustrates American demographics is becoming even more so. Do we classify based on the “one drop of blood” rule? Can classification be made using an objective test? This is all very silly and ultimately pointless. Which should bring us to the position that awarding benefits based on racial or ethnic demographics is a stupid idea and should be tossed in the rubbish bin.
The term African American is supposed to refer to blacks who trace their roots back to the slave trade, hence the reference to Africa. There is no such category as white or European American
Jonathan: We’ve heard this all before. You complain about the “echo chamber” on the left. But you are greatest offender from the right. Your column yesterday about the Smithsonian was an echo of Fox News story the same day. Today is the same thing. Yesterday Fox had an article attacking the NY candidacy of Zohran Mamdani allegedly lying on his application to Columbia. Your column today echoes the Fox story. It’s all become boringly predictable.
The mayoral race in NY is heating up. In the primary the NY Times, that had endorsed Eric Adams when he ran, suddenly decided not to endorse any candidate in this year’s race–although the Times Editorial Board attacked Mamdani and virtually endorsed the already compromised Andrew Cuomo. But it wasn’t just the Times that came out against Mamdani. It was also the NY Post, owned by Rupert Murdock, and practically every other major publication in NY. Didn’t really matter. Mamdani still won by 12 points. How did that happen? The establishment press, like the NY Times, no longer has the ability to determine election outcomes. Voters now look to independent media for their news.
But there was a more important reason Mamdani won the primary and sent shockwaves among the billionaire establishment in NY that has always run NY politics and the choice of candidates for elected office. Mamdani ran, and is running, a historic, grassroots campaign based on small donations. He does not depend on the wealthy paymasters for funding. And Mamdani is focusing on “affordability” in NY that is now the most expensive city in the country to live. And to build affordable housing Mamdani proposes to tax the rich. That send shivers down the backs of NY billionaires.
So we can expect the billionaire class in NY to spend hundreds of millions to defeat Mamdani in the general election on November 4th. It will be the most expensive election in NY history. And we can expect until then that there will be continuous attacks, personal and otherwise, on Mamdani–falsely accusing him of being “anti-Israel” and “anti-semitic”. DJT has already said he will cut off federal funding for NY if Mamdani is elected.
And, no doubt, you will continue to join in the attacks on Mamdani. All I can say is please spare us!
Christ Almighty, would you please stop posting your insane drivel here, even just for one freaking day??
McInliar is not a person, but a bot, programmed to print “Jonathan” followed by the day’s left-wing Democrat talking points. McInliar never reads or responds to anyone who responds to it. My approach, which I recommend for any other human being, is to simply scroll through and never read what you appropriate describe as “insane drivel.” I used to read and respond for a couple months many moons ago, until I realized what was actually going on.
Yes, people talking to AI. There’s a program called the Turing Test. It’s perfecting human speech and thoughts until people begin talking to it. Skip these guys.
Oldmanfromkansas: Just for the record I am not a “bot”. Need some proof? My father was born in Pratt, Kansas. His great great uncle was a member of the Dodge City Peace Commission in the 1890s–along with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Luke Short, the colorful figures from that era. If you have visited the Dodge City Museum there is a plaque displayed there with a photo of the entire Commission showing my distant relative.
Now the reason I almost never respond to the comments by you or others on this blog is simple. It’s a waste of my valuable time. You don’t engage in Socratic constructive dialogue. Simply calling my comments “insane drivel” does not exactly advance reasoned discourse. If you really want to engage the best way to do that is to put forward a counter-argument or point out where my facts or conclusions might be wrong. I’m fine with that. But, unfortunately, it doesn’t appear your capable of that!
He puts his name on it. Skip it.
“Falsely accuse Mamdani of being anti-Israel”
What??? The guy believes the only Jewish state in existence shouldn’t exist. Sorry, your post read as parody.
Zohran Mamdani is a communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO) among communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) and, as such, is a direct and mortal enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Americans, and America.
The communist tenet and slogan, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” is antithetical, illicit, unconstitutional, and an unendurable attack on America and its fundamental law—its essence.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then, and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “general Welfare”–ALL or THE WHOLE WELL PROCEED through governmental provision of security and basic infrastructure–omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same Article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Further, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure.
The Necessary and Proper Clause is nothing more than a perfunctory redundancy for the purposes of clarification—a reinforcement of that which was previously codified—and may not be wielded to amend and impose separate acts that do not represent but alter the letter and spirit of the Founders and Framers.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
Just another example of the Left’s demagogic (don’t stray from the Mob) instincts. This might explain their desire to shield the criminals (it is a crime to enter this country illegally after all). The left has lost its back-bone, they are afraid to compete in the Arena, wishing instead the protection of the State, either through employee or social benefit.
God help the United States, if these dimwits take majority or even a strong minority, we will assuredly face tyranny which is central to Socialist governments.
George W
The voters of that fair city recently stated that they want to be ruled by a communist Jew-hating Islamic jihadist madman who is down with “globalizing the intifada.” This is not satire but the frightening new reality. I have two children who live there and I will be doing my utmost to convince them to move to a saner city.
Kansas, there is a lot to enjoy in NYC, especially if one is young.
Meyer – that’s no doubt true. Which is why my kids and their friends are drawn to it. They’ve had a friend group there for seven years give or take, all about their age. My hope is that they will soon get NYC “out of their system” and move to saner pastures to start a family. There are no guarantees, but one can hope.
There is a lot of money in NYC, especially in the financial district. I don’t know what your children do, but the children of my friends live very high on the hog with apartment rents in the stratosphere.
It was reported that the turnout for the primary election was only 10% of the electorate. He won a majority of a very small minority voters. Off year elections are one way candidates with extreme views often get elected.
Thomas Jefferson believed in the consent of the governed.
True, but based on informed consent. That should rule out deceitful infowarfare as a routine campaign tool, and its amplification by sympathetic media.
Many, including Turley, claim that the 1st Amendment goes so far as to protect deliberate duping of the public in order to win elective office. It only protects against govt. prosecution. It leaves The People the right to police the public square with civil lawsuits to deter Public Frauds. That conclusion is based on Defamation Lawsuits being fully consistent with 1A. It’s time to think about developing Public Frauds torts, and sped-up due process to go with the speed of disinformation.
…if we’re serious about “the consent of the governed”.
Not exactly.
Thomas Jefferson et al. severely restricted the vote; turnout was 11.6% in 1789.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
*. It’s syndicated.
“Many of us still hope that the Times and papers like the Washington Post will still reject advocacy journalism and move back toward objective journalism.”
Haven’t seen any flying pigs of late.
Just say propaganda.
Hey AI. PROPAGANDA! LOOK IT UP …
Only the reading audience can force objective standards upon NYT and WaPo, through audience abandonment.
The journalism of the US is a reflection of the “standards” of audiences — which are gradually improving after a sickening decade of political infotainment and sensationalistic alarmism. Yet, being entertained is still king, compared to being well-informed. We have a ways to go.
DEar Prof Turley,
The irony, of course, is that this NYT hit-piece (sic) on Mamdami was not ‘harmful to the democrats’ .. . they are quite pleased.
One less thing to worry about.
*evidently, the people who voted for Mamdami do not support austere hardships for the poor, endless wars or ethereal golden domes .. . like the democrats do.
Too bad you didn’t bother to look at the demographics of the voters. Mamdani won the vote from primarily white liberals while Most of the voters in the working class did not vote for him.
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