"In return [for access] @maggieNYT & NYT often normalized [Trump] in ways large & small. NYT spent years painting a false portrait of adult decision making at the WH, suggesting Trump was surrounded by a beehive of aides who plotted policy, instead of a madman setting the agenda.
"Example: In March 2020, when Trump changed his mind about America 're-opening' by Easter, @maggieNYT reported the 'decisive' U-turn came after he pored over sobering data points about the pandemic ...
"Normalizing seemed to be the goal. When @maggieNYT sat down with Trump in early 2019 for an extended Q&A, he lied nonstop and came across as utterly incoherent, yet the Times politely typed it all up as a normal White House interview ...
"One year ago, @maggieNYT's byline appeared on a deeply misguided front-page Times piece as America suffered from the government's futile pandemic response: 'Despite Pushback, Trump Suggests Testing Is No Longer an Issue.' ...
"As if his blatant lies ever should have ever been taken at face value, let alone during a deadly public health crisis. Nonetheless @maggieNYT won industry accolades for her Trump reporting." https://pressrun.media/p/maggie-haberman-and-what-happens Wow @EricBoehlert: great piece on Haberman & "Access Journalism"
Every once in a while @maggieNYT, whose "access journalist" normalized the Trump Family for 5 years making her extremely complicit in their crimes against US, likes to Tweet at me that I am simply incapable of understanding her greatness https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1379591404566032390?s=20
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