EDITED to note: I did not realize when I posted this that it was actually written in October, 2025 about an older NYT op-ed, because the complaint is exactly the same. Fresh off the current NYT article linked here, I happened to see this in the sidebar of the Common Dreams article about Saturday’s (March 28, 2026) protests and assumed it was about the current NYT op-ed. My error. Thanks to @AmidFuror@fedia.io for pointing it out.
For those who haven’t read it, this is the NYT article in question. I should note that the author gets thoroughly schooled in the comments:
A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around – by Jeremy W. Peters for the NYT
Archive.world link
(I am aware this site has problems, but it has the content. If you have a better archive link, please post it)
Divisive left-leaning political articles that shame other journalists come in two flavors: people in the USA who hate Trump, and people outside of the USA who worked hard to get Trump into the white house.
Tankies are notorious for attempting to co-opt any movement which has a chance of radicalizing people into antidemocratic views, violence, destruction, or just general liability to US security. Like when they plotted to replace MLK Jr. with their own figureheads in the civil rights movement, and also at one point plotted to kill him by utilizing the KKK, called Operation PANDORA ( операция «ПАНДОРА» ) for just one example, according to ex-soviet intelligence officer Vasili Mitrokhin.
I have yet to see one shifty article from Common Dreams, but if I do then at that time it will not surprise me.
Thank you for this response. It is exactly what I was interested in understanding. I’m not interested in journalist shaming through critical op-eds, and I did not see this article in that light. I saw it as NYT shaming, and I’m not alone because the comments on the NYT piece I linked are filled with the exact same ideas.
Also, you should know that it has been pointed out to me that this Common Dreams article I posted is actually from last October: I saw it on a sidebar for Saturday’s march, but it was so au courant to the latest tepid NYT coverage that I mistakenly assumed that that was the NYT article it was talking about, and even linked it. (I have edited the post body to correct my error.)
No, it’s that over multiple No Kings turnouts the NYT has never changed its game: the criticisms it makes in October are just as applicable to NYT coverage of No Kings today. That’s why I didn’t spot it. And NYT does it across the board, editorializing headlines and minimizing counts, to the point I just switch to international reporting to get the real story on No Kings, ICE, and anything that looks like real resistance.
I also did not downvote either of your responses: I asked a question, you answered it. But this is the one I was looking for, and I’m no goddamn tankie, which is what I assume you were trying to convey with your first, now that I’ve read your second.