cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/35849167
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.
To ask this question is to be unaware of where the NYT has been going for years – probably over a decade by now in the open, and behind the scenes before that. This media situation didn’t spring forth fully formed.
Definitely for over a decade. NYT was a major force in selling the Iraq War to the American public on behalf of the Bush administration.