On Thursday June 28, 2018, Jared Ramos went into an Annapolis MD newspaper office and blew away 5 people. On Sunday July 1, 2018, in the New York Times Morning Briefing, (an email quick news service for those of us that would never spend a dime on the full New York Times), Joumana Kkatib and Lance Booth, the newsletter authors issued the following statement:
“Thursday’s attack rattled newspapers across the country.Disgruntled readers are hardly a new phenomenon. But in a time when President Trump regularly inveighs against the news media, journalists are on higher alert.”
For the record, as reported in a CNN articleon the shooting: “Court records show that a year later, in July 2012, Ramos filed a complaint against Hartley and the newspaper, alleging he was defamed by the story.” This date is when the Ramos vendetta against the paper started in earnest. Compare and contrast; what year did Trump begin office? 2017. Most of the campaign and election? 2016. What year did Ramos begin his feud? 2012, and after much other longstanding sociopathy. But of course, Trump did really did it, right?
I know that this is just one in a thousand slanders and slights performed routinely every day by major media, but I’d like to call this out. The slithering intelligentsia left wonders why they cannot gain traction over the ignorant masses. That their budding journalist cannot track dates may have something to do with it; or maybe they would simply declare their statement was representative; the mood, the tone, the rhetoric that is retroactively making crazy people homicidal?
I have little doubt Kkatib and Booth and the NYT editorial staff considers themselves securely as part of America’s mainstream but this is where they err. Once you cross the Hudson or really, a-ways further out, people instinctively have a better understanding of what constitutes facts and fault. Just a clue; it isn’t the same as what’s taught at in demagoguery 101 at whatever elite universities they attended.
Ramos shot and killed a bunch of people. He had acute personality disorders. He was not inspired by Trump. That is one story. Kkatib and Booth don’t like Trump. They’re liberals and liberals are enraged at Trump. He is their ideological opposite. This too is a story. These two stories don’t mix at all. This is an example of why the New York Times does not deserve the self-esteem they heap on themselves. Ideology is not news.