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Seriously? You have gotten to the point in your extremism that the New York Times, one of the most respected news sources in the entire world is not factual to the point it should be banned. How did the country seriously get to this point?

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I am on mobile, however I will amend with sources. The NYT dileberately held back stories and pushed forward the views if the Clinton campaign. If you accept that wikileaks emails are authentic, you can not accept NYT as legit. Maybe we can assume it was incompetence that their polling numbers (85-15) we wrong, and that is subjective admittedly. I personally feel this too was intentional.

Edit: not to mention, like most media, it cant serve over https because of advertising refferers.

How Their Polling Numbers Changed:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/796209661456347136

How the HRC campaign used media to influence RNC and promote weakest candidates:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks

Op Ed on why Wikileaks isn't whistleblowing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-...

here are some screencaps of various media companies front page and politics pages:

http://imgur.com/a/v2huv

I have to find the actual links to the wikileaks NYT stoiry placement emails, but this at least points out the narrative that was being crafted and why I dislike NYT. The fact that they were part of the reason we had Trump v. Cointon is enough for me to drp them. Trump & clinton are terrible people and the media (namely NYT) is the reason this was even possible.

It's possible that respect isn't entirely earned - indeed, even that their own reputation caused the New York Times to get an overblown sense of its own importance: http://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-...

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