Comment by tptacek
8 months ago
Who cares? To a first approximation everybody who reads the NYT (really: any newspaper) opposes Trump. People obsess about NYT coverage decisions, but the NYT has approximately zero political influence in 2025. If education and engagement depolarize, that could change, but it hasn't yet.
The NYT amplifying a story in a ridiculous manner can convince democrats to stay home because "ugh, they are all crooks."
That's not what happened in the last election; in fact, the Democrats did marginally better with engaged voters. Anyways, I'm just saying, there's not much point to doing kremlinology about what the NYT is reporting.
Democrats provided a negative 6,265,888 votes for better engagement in Election 2024 than in 2020.
But Democrat engagement was somehow negative marginally higher, at huge expense by independent voters.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250114165808/https://projects....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...
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The "but her emails" jokes in this context are all about the 2016 election.
IMO, political influence can be discussed in terms of directionality and substance, and both are relevant.
Directionality is short term and simplistic, Does it change how someone will vote or poll.
Substance explains why they vote or poll, and is relevant because it has downstream consequences in an evolving world.