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NetQuarterLatte t1_j1aosiw wrote

Reply to comment by mission17 in ‘Openly Gay’ Rep.-Elect George Santos Didn’t Disclose Divorce With Woman by mission17

>This is simply bullshit. Entirely anachronistic. And is not the reality of why this story did not surface until now.

Yeah, including the NY Times, it was not related at all with their relentless push for their "crime is just a perception issue / GOP propaganda" narrative.

Edit: even in mid Sep, when it was pretty obvious, the NY was still trying to spin the narrative. Those who want to deny, feel free to continue doing so.

NY Times confirms that huge donors for Zeldin came as a consequence of the public safety debate:

>The stakes have only grown amid a huge outside spending campaign by a handful of ultrawealthy conservative donors seeking to capitalize on the public safety debate.

NY Times spins the narrative:

>As Ms. Hochul likes to point out, the state remains safer than some far smaller, many run by Republicans.
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>But a rash of highly visible, violent episodes, especially on the New York City subways, in recent months have left many New Yorkers with at least the perception that parts of the state are growing markedly less safe.

NY Times spending time fishing for a quote about the "GOP propaganda" narrative on the streets, rather than investigating George Santos.

>“I want to make something crystal clear because they aren’t going to explain it to you in the media,” he said, adding: “They want to make us afraid.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/nyregion/hochul-zeldin-governor-ny.html

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mission17 OP t1_j1aq25e wrote

That was quite literally not what was happening in The New York Times two months ago. And thus that is absolutely not the reason this did not happen. You very much understand this and understand you’re not being honest, anyways, so this will be my last comment clarifying it for everyone else here.

But furthermore The New York Times, or whatever your favorite liberal boogeyman newspaper may be, is not the only party responsible for fumbling the bag. Your favorite conservative outlets, if they actually have a fuck about holding the right accountable, equally could have uncovered this story. Or the Democratic Party. Or the Republican Party, if they actually cared about being represented by honest people. But they clearly do not.

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MillennialNightmare t1_j1apqjm wrote

The New York Times also published multiple articles about crime in New York City. Saying they had a unilateral narrative that it was pure perception is a flat out lie.

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mission17 OP t1_j1ayiw1 wrote

I’m not entertaining that user with any more replies but in their edits: 1) nothing that the Times was saying is remotely untrue, 2) only a small fraction of the crimes coverage is represented, with much of the Time coverage having actually insinuating the narrative of a crime wave, and 3) absolutely none of this coverage would’ve precluded research into the candidates.

It’s exhausting how they try to make the “Democrats/left-wing media/whoever wasn’t right wing enough” answer fit every problem they can think of, even if it just takes a total lie to get to that result.

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