The New York Times Exposes Media Hypocrisy as It Echoes Tom Cotton in Call to End Trucker Protest By Brad Slager for Red State
Does the New York Times forget that this kind of language threatens their own staffers?
The Canadian truckers protest has been a revelatory exercise in the fluid nature of our politics. Positions held regarding activities have flipped rather easily, and the abrupt switch has been seen on both sides. For myself, I see my support for the resistance to governmental overreach hitting a snag when it comes to clogging major roadways and impacting emergency services.
But the real amusement in this is seen in the media, which has no problem looking at the issue and noting the hypocrisy seen on the right and in conservative media circles, but they appear incapable of locating any mirrors. On Friday in my Townhall media column, I gave numerous examples of media distemper regarding this protest, yet as they rail about Fox News suddenly approving of occupying protestors, these same scolds in the press cannot see their own 180-degree positional shift.
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What happened to the blind support of citizens expressing their disdain for the government? Where is the glowing approval of AOC-type backing in saying the purpose of protests is to make the government uncomfortable? And just how can journalists decry the potential for violence in Ottawa, after waving pom-poms in front of auto parts stores engulfed in flames? Now, in taking this contradictory editorializing to laughable heights, the New York Times arrives with its hot take on the matter, and it should become an embarrassment for the paper.
In a report on the breadth of the protest and the impacts on our commerce, the Times gives a lengthy rundown. What becomes exposed is just how the paper sells this disruption. Look over this summation and see if it does not sound eerily familiar to a previous position seen in the same periodical.
As protests stretch on in Canada and truckers block supply chains with the U.S., some Canadians are asking: Why hasn’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the authorities to quash the demonstrations? https://t.co/OZ72MKY8wE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 10, 2022
