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Goodwin: The alternative ‘facts’ of the Times’ Brett Kavanaugh story
By Michael Goodwin
September 17, 2019 | 9:54pm
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Although some of its usual supporters are among those blasting The New York Times for its slimy hit job on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the paper is tuning them out and digging itself into a deeper hole. Exhibit A is that Tuesday’s edition carried a front-page article asserting that the “Allegation Reopens the Debate Over Kavanaugh.”
In political and journalistic terms, that amounts to giving a giant middle finger to the world. The Times is going rogue.
The choice might be admirable if the facts weren’t so damn inconvenient. Because they are, the paper is revealing itself to be more arrogant than honest and more wedded to its activist agenda than the truth.
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They won’t get their way, thanks to GOP control of the Senate and public disgust with Washington cannibalism, but merely calling for it unfairly tarnishes Kavanaugh and the court.
Then again, that seems to be exactly what the Times aims to achieve.
This is not journalism. It’s dirty politics that dishonors the paper’s grand tradition by allowing such naked partisanship in its news pages. It also sets a terrible example for other media organizations and young journalists.
There is little consolation that the book authors are throwing their Times’ editors under the bus for the way the excerpts were handled. Or that one of the authors, Pogrebin, belatedly confessed that she wrote the “penis” tweet that was deleted, with the paper calling it “offensive.”
These are minor differences among teammates in the larger enterprise of changing America to fit their left-wing politics. The Times is just their battering ram.
And so the most important lesson is the most disheartening: The Kavanaugh smear demonstrates that the Times is not ready to self-correct.
Nor has it hit rock bottom. Until it does, it will continue to inflict enormous damage on innocent individuals, vital institutions and the fabric of America.
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