OK, where do we start with this one? First, the New York Times did report on the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, on the front page of the paper. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, however, can’t believe that an attempted assassination of the Speaker of the House didn’t even make it above the fold. Oh, and this attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi is partially blamed on Donald Trump normalizing fascist violence. Trump has made fascist violence so common that Pelosi’s assassination attempt didn’t even make it above the fold on the front page. Crazy.
The New York Times put the attempted assassination of the United States Speaker of the House below the fold. If you want to know just how numb America has become to Trump’s inspiring of fascist violence, here it is. pic.twitter.com/xesllitdBi
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) October 29, 2022
The photo cuts off, but it’s down there: “While the police say they were still investigating the motive….” Guys, it was an assassination attempt!
"Numb" suggests inattention. This is a deliberate editorial policy.
— Omri Marian 🇺🇦 (@Omri_Marian) October 29, 2022
Maybe it's @nytimes subtle message that Trump and the @GOP is their priority
— Dave Parkinson (@dparkinson45) October 29, 2022
So true. Thanks Joe
— TJ (@tjintheway) October 29, 2022
Even the WSJ put it above the fold pic.twitter.com/ZPwndnFc4d
— @mbaram (@mbaram) October 29, 2022
Most of us haven't become numb, the media decides to minimize the stories that would be front page news for days if it were 1997 and people don't see just how bad things are
— Chris "The Hitman" Hart (@AreYouIn729) October 29, 2022
Was the @nytimes afraid to run this as a headline? Afraid of GOP backlash? Probably.
— Val Casto (@val_casto) October 29, 2022
The slippery slope of apathy. It's frightening what we've become accustomed to.
— Cat Rakowski (@catrakowski) October 29, 2022
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Appalling though the incident was, isn't this more an example of what is happening to the New York Times, than what is happening to America…
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) October 29, 2022
This is one example of why I canceled my online digital subscription to the New York Times @nytimes
— Ed Bognacki (@EdwardBognacki) October 29, 2022
And they referred to abortion as a “social issue!!”
— Connie Sherman (@connieshermandm) October 29, 2022
Dear God, where did they do that?
Editorial placement of articles is mindboggling these days. The Pelosi story deserves the upper right front page. A story about how Texas is the fourth most difficult state to vote in deserves not to be buried on page 7 of the B section of the Dallas Morning News.
— Jim Bloom (@jamesabloom) October 29, 2022
"While police said they were still investigating the motive"
— Matthew Linder (@LinderMatthew) October 29, 2022
Yeah, that’s the line we picked up as well. Man, first CNN goes hard-right and now the New York Times is following right behind.
The attempted assassination of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh didn't even make the New York Times front page on June 9. Is that Trump's fault too? pic.twitter.com/u4k8RwnwTf
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) October 29, 2022
Buried on page A20. pic.twitter.com/Zlr58pBgnc
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) October 29, 2022
“Man with pistol, crowbar and zip ties is arrested near [Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s] home … see page 20.
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Reports on what happened when police arrived at the Pelosi home have a curious new detail https://t.co/DsOytj5a2Q
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 29, 2022
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