The NYTimes takes a bold position promoting censorship. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1252238110370476033

As usual, such tweets result in people explaining (wrongly) that it's not "censorship" because TV is privately owned.

The NYTimes article claims the opposite of journalistic responsibility. Providing access to the unfiltered content is journalistic responsibility, censoring part of it is what's irresponsible.

Sure, Trump frequently displays his unfitness for the presidency in his daily covid briefings. But to report on this, the press has to make available the full unfiltered source material.

Yes, journalists should provide "context". But that doesn't mean "censoring" it. Frankly, as bad as Trump has been, the media has been worse, flagrantly editing his content to misrepresent what he says to make it sound worse.

Yes, Trump's statements are often repugnant. Journalists win by airing Trump's statements and rebutting them, not by suppressing them.

Part of the problem is that journalists can't provide context. Trump's support for hydroxychloroquine is virulently anti-science, but the NYTimes doesn't employ people who understand science to provide context.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-malaria.html

The NYTimes shows time and time again that it's beef with Trump is purely political. They want to censor Trump because they oppose his politics, not because he's any more factually wrong or more anti-science than the NYTimes is.

All presidential speeches are self-serving propaganda, whether Trump's or Obama's or the leader of any other country. What they have to say is still newsworthy, but they all need to reported (or not reported) the same.

Trump hasn't handled this crisis "abysmally". I read a lot of international news. How the U.S. is weathering this crisis is above average. In any case, the President just isn't as involved as people think, not responsible for good things or bad things.

Sure, it's galling to listen to Trump attempting to take credit for any good things related to this crisis. But at the same time, he's not "politicizing" this pandemic any more than his enemies, including the NYTimes, which attempt to pin the blame of all bad things on him.