September 6, 2025

How the NY Times uses weasel words to avoid reality

Dan Froomkin - The evidence, by this point, is overwhelming.

Donald Trump is an authoritarian leader who regularly violates the law and the constitution while accreting personal power in a way that is inimical to democracy.

And yet the New York Times, our national news source of record, routinely resorts to weasel words, euphemisms and third-party critiques to avoid saying so in its own institutional voice.

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