Perfect example of the NYT shaping the news to favor trump

[senseandsensibility]

"To Get the Strait Open Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later" is the headline.

But as Lindsay Beyerstein points out on bluesky, this headline is malpractice on the NYT's part. The strait isn't open.

In spite of their efforts to will lemonade out of these lemons, nothing positive has happened at all. A more accurate headline would be : Trump Delays Peace Talks Again After Promising An Agreement.

Real journalists report the truth. It's embarrassing that that even has to be said.

[lame54]

1. Or...

Straight open - Trump elected - Straight closed

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Shameless headline.

Problem is that Trump won't accept any deal that Neti won't approve of. His conditions are absolute. That is why he can't find his way out of this mess he created.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Yet every day we are treated to a new episode of this

bad reality show with the media running interference for him. The goal is to make the situation so confusing that people throw up their hands and say "whatever".

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Exactly. That's how misinformation works for authoritarian propagandist governments.

Create confusion.
Errode confidence.
In walks Social Murder with Auto Genocide.

...keep in mind that authoritarian propagandist efforts are geared towards several things. The health care changes, removal of environmental protections etc are all part of a concept called autogenocide.

It's their push away from American values and towards Christian Nationalism. This attempts to overpower us with their unpopular and easily refuted attempts at separating us as they try pushing us away from goodness and hope towards engineered despair.

This creates a world where finding good becomes useless in one's mind and the stress it creates distracts from our ability to organize, see a better tomorrow and resist their efforts.

Awareness of autogenocide exposes how nation states and rogue governments try to drive their populations to destroy themselves. Whether through poisoned environments, collapsing healthcare, misinformation & engineered despair.

It's mass death by design...

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20988678

[mountain grammy]

9. the headline I saw: republicans to leave Congress for defying trump

"defying?" Not disagreeing, not voting against, DEFYING! like he's king..

[Ilikepurple]

10. Agree!!

I hate media use of language that defends itself pointing to one definition but really implies another, Sometimes it’s just for clicks, sometimes it’s an attempt to shape our opinions using subconscious equivocation, and sometimes it’s just ordinary fallacious equivocation. Here I believe it’s to buttress the idea that Presidents, or maybe just Trump, have powers that extend beyond their roles as chief executive.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. but the economy is NOT getting better and it CAN BE BLAMED on this DUMB WAR

as long as this DUMB war keeps going

[pat_k]

5. He won't accept the humiliating terms required to extract from his monumental mistake

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3667318

[liberalgunwilltravel]

6. I undestand the sentiment

And mostly agree. But here is another headline from today's NYT: "Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal."

And the article goes on to show just how weak Trump's position is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/middleeast/iran-deal-trump-pressure.html

And the Times editorial board has been appropriately merciless regarding Trump and his administration's blatant corruption. And unlike the editorial board of the Bezos Post, they don't kiss Trump's fat ass.

All that said, the Fourth Estate has let us down and continues to do so.

[bif]

8. Folks here love to hate the NYT

It gets real old.

[fujiyamasan]

12. There are much worse offenders

When it comes to international coverage especially they’re probably the only newspaper with any depth at this point. They’re also fairly critical of Trump for the most part. It hasn’t completely fallen apart like the Bezos Post.

I’m not going to defend all of NYT’s coverage. For example, their coverage of Biden’s age in 2024 was completely lopsided and almost became obsessive while basically ignoring Trump’s clear cognitive and physical decline.

[ToxMarz]

13. It seems they could have said 'may have to' instead of 'had to' and everything would be ok?

"To Get the Strait Open Trump May Have to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later"

Probably could find bigger criticism of the media out there.

[reACTIONary]

7. That's all Beyerstein has? That's ....

.... pretty weak.

Here is the actual article, in case anyone is interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/strait-of-hormuz-reopen-iran-deal.html?smid=url-share

News analysis: To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later

President Trump is hailing the agreement with Iran as groundbreaking, even as he admits it “isn’t even fully negotiated.” But the nuclear stockpile, enrichment and missiles have not been discussed.

[ClickClack]

11. "NACHO, NACHO MAN..." (Everybody sing along!) (eom)

[agingdem]

15. The NYT has made it the paper's mission to

translate Trump's verbal vomit into thought provoking dialogue..instead of holding Trump accountable for his catastrophic vanity war and the subsequent fallout, the paper presents Trump's humiliating capitulation as something of a "hard choice"...shame on the NYT for running defense for a venal depraved degenerate rather than doing its job... speaking truth to power..

[senseandsensibility]

16. Agreed

They made a factually inaccurate statement in their headline that I guess we are just supposed to believe errors in trump's favor by accident. I don't buy that for a second. Headline writing is an artform and extremely important when conveying information. In fact, large numbers of readers only scan the headlines and will, in fact, see errors more there than in the article itself. I remember as a journalism student writing headlines for my college newspaper. It was taken very seriously and had to be signed off on by an editor. Factual errors were unheard of and a nonstarter even for journalism students.