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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:54 AM Oct 2015

ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims Clinton ‘Emerging as Unrivaled Leader’ in Democratic Race

http://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyt-claims-clinton-emerging-as-unrivaled-leader-in-democratic-race/

A New York Times article by Patrick Healy and Trip Gabriel (10/23/15), on how the Republican presidential nominee has not yet been determined more than three months before the first voter weighs in, provided this piece of context as its second paragraph:

With Hillary Rodham Clinton emerging as the unrivaled leader in the Democratic contest, the unruly Republican presidential field suddenly seemed to lack a center of political gravity on Friday, leaving party strategists and voters to fear a long nomination fight that could end with a damaged standard-bearer facing a more unified left.


Hmm. The “unrivaled leader” leads her closest rival, Bernie Sanders, by 7 percentage points in an average of recent polls in the first caucus state, Iowa. In the first primary state, New Hampshire, she trails Sanders by 2 points; it’s been two months since she had a clear lead over him there. (In an accompanying graphic, the Times ranks Clinton as No. 1 in New Hampshire polls—based on a different polling average that has her ahead by 0.2 percentage points.)

Rather than “emerging” as a leader with no rivals, Clinton’s aura of inevitability has faded as Sanders has shown surprising strength in polling, fundraising and ability to attract crowds. Rather than signifying a “unified left,” the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination has revealed deep divides between the party’s grassroots and corporate wings.

There are at least two other significant declared candidates in the Democratic race: Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and public interest attorney Lawrence Lessig. The article implicitly dismisses them as rivals for the nomination months before the actual nominating contest begins.

The New York Times, which strongly identifies with that corporate wing, would like its assertion that the 2016 Democratic primary season is over before it begins to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Democracy would be much better served if the Times were to allow voters to determine who the Democratic Party’s next presidential nominee will be.

ACTION:

Please ask New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan to address the Times‘ misleading claim that Hillary Clinton has no rival in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

CONTACT:

New York Times
Public Editor Margaret Sullivan
email: public@nytimes.com
Twitter: @Sullivie
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims Clinton ‘Emerging as Unrivaled Leader’ in Democratic Race (Original Post) eridani Oct 2015 OP
Seriously? Sherman A1 Oct 2015 #1
Still, organizations like FAIR give us all the info we need to complain eridani Oct 2015 #2
The media Sherman A1 Oct 2015 #3
Oh, Hillary's Unrivaled all right--the Female version of Nixon Demeter Oct 2015 #4
What do u expect from the MSM newfie11 Oct 2015 #5
I agree with the OP. The NYTimes needs to hear from the public. senz Oct 2015 #6
El.Oh.El. AzDar Oct 2015 #7
They are screwing O'Malley as well. Might be good to mention that n/t eridani Oct 2015 #8
Clinton supporter linked to Mexican drug cartel is largest shareholder in NYT. Divernan Oct 2015 #9

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
3. The media
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:33 AM
Oct 2015

is about the "horse race" and this is simply another opinion article to that end. I have found it best to simply tune out the media during Presidential Campaigns (and most other times as well). The populace would be better served if they did the same.

I have no faith in anything printed or published by the NYT or pretty much any other media outlet.

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
4. Oh, Hillary's Unrivaled all right--the Female version of Nixon
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:19 AM
Oct 2015

Not much competition in that field.

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
5. What do u expect from the MSM
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:34 AM
Oct 2015

They want anyone but Bernie!
Sucks to be them cause he's going to win in spite of them.
#FeelTheBern2016!

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
6. I agree with the OP. The NYTimes needs to hear from the public.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:41 AM
Oct 2015

They have a responsibility to not interfere with U.S. elections. They are abjuring their important role as the 4th Estate, which is to keep the public informed. It is too early to call the Democratic primary; Hillary is not a shoe-in. The corporate media wants to make her one, as we learned after their gushing post-debate coverage, but they should not be interfering with the democratic process.

The NYTimes is very influential; I'm amazed at a couple of the blasé comments upthread that assume this is unimportant. Big news outlets like the Times affect public perception and mold public opinion.

This is just one more attack on democracy.

Thanks for posting this, eridani!

Divernan

(15,480 posts)
9. Clinton supporter linked to Mexican drug cartel is largest shareholder in NYT.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 02:34 PM
Oct 2015
Hillary Clinton's Scandalous Conduct in Haiti: Charity Begins At Home
Another example in a continuing lineup of scandals that make Hillary Clinton toxic and unfit to be considered for the presidency of the United States.

Carlos Slim's net worth is more than $64.8 billion dollars. The richest man on earth is a Mexican telecom mogul, whose career's "most interesting parts" are his links to businessmen "suspected of involvement in Mexico’s so-called ‘Cartel of the Southeast." He is a Clinton associate and donor to the Clinton Foundation. In 2015, Carlos Slim became the largest shareholder in the New York Times. William Engdahl, an author and lecturer with a degree in politics from Princeton suggests in this revealing article that this may explain why we will not be reading about the "murky dealings" of The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in Haiti from the New York Times; "formerly America’s most respected newspaper of record." According to Haiti activist Ezili Dantò: "The Clintons have used governmental power to conduct their private business and called it ‘helping poor Haitians.’”

http://thehaitianblogger.blogspot.com/2015/03/hillary-clintons-scandalous-conduct-in.html

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/news-and-media/press-releases-and-statements/press-release-president-bill-clinton-frank-giustra-and-carlos-slim-launch-20-mil.html


Slim come con Clinton en el Palm del Hotel Intercontinental de México


Carlos Slim Becomes NY Times Largest Shareholder

Carlos Slim & the ‘Narco-Politicos’
http://www.madcowprod.com/2009/02/03/carlos-slim-the-narco-politicos/

narcopolitico Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire whose $250 million cash infusion bailed the New York Times out of a tight cash crunch last week, has long-standing business ties with wealthy Mexican businessmen suspected of involvement in Mexico's so-called “Cartel of the Southeast,” the drug trafficking organization (DTO) based in Cancun which came to light two years ago with the crash on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula of an American-registered (N987SA) Gulfstream jet carrying nearly four tons of cocaine.

A long-time lieutenant of Carlos Slim's, Fernando Chico Pardo, left Slim's employ to take over ASUR, a publicly-traded corporation which observers accuse of moving large quantities of cocaine through Cancun International Airport, which the company runs and manages.

ASUR controls a total of a dozen Mexican airports, and exemplifies the “corporatization” which has transformed the drug trade in the same process of vertical integration and market consolidation which has left, in other large industries, like automobiles, a handful of global multinational players dominating market share worldwide.

Slim's big investment represents an encroachment into the ownership of an icon of American democracy of a man, and a massive fortune, whose provenance have gone largely unexamined. But on the topic of Slim's shady dealings, all eyes seem to be curiously averted. However it seems highly doubtful the Times' ownership is unaware of them.

The barely-concealed facts regarding Carlos Slim’s shady connections are well-known to journalists in Mexico. They deserve to become more well-known here in the U.S., because links between Mexico's exploding narco-economy and current-world's-richest-man Carlos Slim don’t end with Fernando Pardo's ASUR.

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