The nation's paper of record downplayed the 'No Kings" protests while urging Democrats to move toward the center to defeat Trump, all the while ignoring the GOP's attempt to undermine election integrity.

An estimated 7 million peaceful protesters took to the streets on October 18, in the second-largest demonstration in US history (after the first Earth Day in 1970), demanding accountability and a return to democracy and the rule of law. In a system of government where citizens can only use the ballot box every two to six years to show how they feel about their electeds, that’s something you’d think would warrant journalistic attention.

Yet at the nation’s paper of record—whose headquarters sat literally a stone’s throw away from the New York City No Kings march route—the protest was deemed not important enough for a front-page story. Two small below-the-fold photos were offered instead (10/19/25), with the accompanying article buried on page 23.

  • zd9@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Because legacy media is owned by the same wealthy interests as everything else, and progressivism is a legitimate, real threat to those greedy fucks

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 months ago

    why are “leftists” more concerned with splitting people into separate groups and pitting them against each other other than unifying against fascism?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      Because… because centrists don’t actually care about opposing fascism and will in fact support it more often than not? This is like saying “we’re fighting the Germans; we have no problem with the Italians” in WWII.

      • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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        4 months ago

        That’s a copout, you need reject it as part of your mental model, because it’s limiting you. “I don’t like exactly what you said, it must be a narrative you were fed by my enemies”.

        it’s no narrative, it’s what I’ve seen here day after day.

        • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          imagine basing your political alignment on what strangers say about you and not the actual actions of said political body

          ‘lefty’s were mean to me on the internet so I voted for a Nazi pedophile’

          -you

          then smugly doubling down about these stupid justifications

            • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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              4 months ago

              the president obviously

              if you voted harris then why the fuck are you spending time defending trump supporters at this point

              like i get post 2016 but not after jan 6

    • minnow@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      They think they can bribe fascists for favorable outcomes, but what they’re still in denial about is that fascists do whatever they fuck they think will get the m them the most power in any given circumstance, including going back on promises (money paid, money taken), extorting for more money, and throwing anybody they want Uber the bus.

      There’s no making deals with fascists, there’s only getting scammed by fascists.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Oh shit! NYT put the No Kings protest story below the fold on the front page? Clearly they are trying to hide it.

    When did No Kings become about progressives? It’s opposition to Trump and specifically his authoritarianism. Plenty of neoliberals are against Trump. The boogiemen of the left - Biden and Harris - were also against Trump. NYT is against Trump. So they neither hid No Kings nor had motive to do so.

  • DaMummy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Maybe it’s old news, but doesn’t one of the owners of NYT have a home in occupied land in Palestine?