How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism Press Watch

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
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The lawsuits are good, the editorials are getting better, but the news stories are still full of weasel words and normalization. The greatest power of a news organization is news. See: https://presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel-words-to-normalize-authoritarianism/

How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism | Press Watch
It’s an abandonment of the Times’s obligation to responsibly use its bully pulpit in a time of crisis.
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‪Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis‬
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· 2h
The Times is brave in court. I wish that it were braver in print (and that AG could restrain himself from one more swipe at Biden for not giving him an interview).
AG Sulzberger: ‘We Will Not Compromise’ on Independent Reporting
https://www.nytco.com/press/ag-sulzberger-we-will-not-compromise-on-independent-reporting/

AG Sulzberger: ‘We Will Not Compromise’ on Independent Reporting | The New York Times Company
The New York Times publisher spoke in defense of a free press hosted by Yale Law School’s Floy Abrams Institute.
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10:11 AM · May 22, 2026

The lawsuits are good, the editorials are getting better, but the news stories are still full of weasel words and normalization. The greatest power of a news organization is news. See: presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-...

— Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) 2026-05-22T14:11:20.991Z

[RockRaven]

1. Like they did in the 1930s all over again. As people have been saying for a decade now.