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)
Thats a rethorical question, right?
I mean, obviously because fascism is much closer to what they know and their status quo than the alternative.
Because they want fascism.
Because: Shareholder value and market capitalization.
in his very best Comic Book Guy/Jeff Albertson voice, whatevermynameisrightnow stated: it’s the new. york. times.
Worst. Editorial. Ever.
Because when you rise to that level of power to be in the NYT editorial board…
The only non-millionaires you interact with are employees, and then it’s just a handful that talk to the rest.
You can’t compensate for this level of wealth inequality. The powerful will always side with themselves, because that’s their social circle and how the human brain is wired.
It’s the entire problem with neoliberalism.
Oh fuck yes. I have all but given up on the NY Times for politics. Arts and culture and the metro pages are fine, but the rest is just SO tilted to the corporatist wealthy…
Yep. I got distracted when I was posting, but I have edited the original post to include links to the original NYT article, not least because almost every single comment calls out both this article and the NYT coverage as a whole for being, as one commenter put it, “dyspeptic.”
I have wondered at the failure until now of the NYTs to write anything about the over 3000 planned protests for No Kings 3. What I feel now is dismay. What a dyspeptic article!
Like this one from New Jersey:
The author seems to think that millions of people marching to protest an authoritarian regime and supporting the Constitution is not a strong enough message. Five MAGA supporters in a diner somehow speak for America, but 10 million protesting in support of America is troublesome for democrats? Make that make sense.
And this one from California:
I believe the only thing missing from the No Kings rallies is the urgency of the press. The main stream media provided days, even weeks of coverage of the Charlie Kirk murder and the same for the kidnapping of Savanna Guthrie’s mother. But like all the rallies before it, I expect nothing more than a blurb on tonight’s weekend news with a few shots of massive crowds in a handful of big cities. Then, silence. There will be no follow up questions with members of Congress in the coming weeks, no answers demanded from the President about whether or not they support or fear the messages the American people are rallying around. The Vietnam anti-war protests were nightly news. Today’s protests will be lucky if they get 2 minutes in the local news.
And this one from Massachusetts:
Instead of questioning the value of these protests, how about reporting on the incredible number of protests planned, not just in the U.S., but internationally? How about reporting on the wide range of people attending, and the wonderful fact of peaceful behavior despite huge crowds and strong emotions? How about reporting on the fact that despite every effort by Trump et al to dismantle the rights baked into our country’s founding and added onto since then, people are out there standing up, speaking up, resisting and fighting for the removal of this madman and his toadies? How about reporting on the resilience of people and our belief in the power of collective protest???
And this one from somewhere in the US?
Very disappointed in the skeptical tone of this article.
When people criticize the Times for being out of touch, this is part of the reason why.
Millions and millions of Americans come out for some of the largest protests in our history.
Talk to Ruth Ben Ghiat about this. Resistance movements take time to build.
Don’t try to disparage the event before it has even happened.
Oohh, thank you for the link. I just skimmed through the comments… AJ from Saskatchewan absolutely nailed it!
Utterly delightful to read.
So many of the comments are absolute gold. They’re the best thing about the article!
I could have quoted a dozen more, but they’re behind the paywall even when direct linked and are not gathered with the article content in archive versions. I just wish I could have screenshotted at least the top ten, but they do it in this weird side frame that doesn’t move with the rest of the page so it was a lost cause.
Because the NYT editorial board are aligned with the Fascists
Capitalism requires suckers. Progressive ideals want to help everyone. Miles of difference.
Oh, that’s an easy one, it’s because the fascists own and operate the NYT.
Have you met liberals?
…no one so gauche…
This article is from October 2025.
Holy shit, you’re right. I saw it in a sidebar of an article about yesterday’s No Kings and assumed it was also current, because I’d just come off that NYT aricle I linked above.
Massive error on my part. Thank you for the correction.
no worries, they could reuse it and they wouldn’t notice either
👍 🤣
I agree with the headline but I get a really bad gut feeling from Common Dreams. Maybe it’s because of the people on here who post from them.
I would be very interested in knowing more, and just so you know I’m not looking for an argument. Genuinely curious.
Plus, I can’t be personally offended because this is the first time I’ve ever posted anything from there. The article caught my attention because it was a further exploration of all the comments skewering the NYT author for writing such a limp piece of “look away, nothing to see here” propaganda, so I thought I’d post.
If you don’t want to say it publicly, hit my DMs. But I am genuinely interested.
You don’t have to ask me about the Fediverse, you’re in it, mate.
I’m so glad we got this valuable feedback. You have a bad feeling and don’t want to talk about it? Just talk about it anyway, but cryptically and snippily!
The first thing to learn about the Fediverse is that FiniteBanjo is a lonely troll with no particular values. They just spew shit to get a rise out of people.
Its a victim complex, but you are also right about them standing for nothing.
It wasn’t always this way, but it comes down to them seeing the role of everyone as being sheepdogs for the DNC. Its impossible for them to understand how and why the DNC failed in 2024, and it severely affected them. They really broke down over the previous two years as their basic thesis for how politics works collapsed. The future has been hard on them, and its been a sad transformation. Its like watching someone develop schizophrenia, or watching an elderly relative develop dementia. Reality went one direction, and they’ve refused to go along.
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.
I put Common Dreams in the same category as WSWS and Jacobin. Only one of those is officially aligned with a political party, as far as I can tell, but they all write the same things.
