{"id":2361440,"date":"2024-10-30T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-mag-predictably-papers-over-olivia-nuzzi-scandal\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:38:30","slug":"new-york-mag-predictably-papers-over-olivia-nuzzi-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-mag-predictably-papers-over-olivia-nuzzi-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mag Predictably Papers Over Olivia Nuzzi Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-mag-predictably-papers-over-olivia-nuzzi-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2361440&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200b article critiques the corporate media&#8217;s handling of corruption, particularly focusing \u2064on \u200dthe case of New York Magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi&#8217;s inappropriate relationship with presidential \u2062candidate Robert F. \u2064Kennedy Jr. The author\u200d argues that the \u200cmagazine has sought to downplay the controversy rather than address it \u200ctransparently, leading to \u200cconcerns about media bias and omissions in reporting.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, New York Magazine announced the results of an independent review of Nuzzi&#8217;s\u2062 work,\u200b claiming no inaccuracies or bias were found, but ultimately decided\u200b to part\u2063 ways \u2064with her. \u200bHowever, the author \u200bsuggests that the omission of critical reporting, especially\u2063 regarding President Biden&#8217;s mental fitness\u2014an issue Nuzzi allegedly withheld \u200cinformation \u200don\u2014highlights a deeper corruption \u200din journalism. \u200cThe article contends that media figures often showcase their biases not through what they publish, but through what they choose not \u200bto report, pointing out that \u2063the silence surrounding serious issues can be as damaging as the misinformation itself.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The corporate media&rsquo;s corruption is so predictable.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago, when the controversy first emerged over New York Magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi engaging in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.status.news\/p\/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inappropriate relationship<\/a> with a story subject &mdash; then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. &mdash; I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/24\/corrupt-reporters-like-olivia-nuzzi-are-destroying-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">predicted<\/a> how the magazine would deal with the controversy, largely by covering it up. Thus far, the magazine has followed that prediction to a T.<\/p>\n<p>In so doing, however, New York Magazine revealed how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-years-after-lockdowns-the-wests-troubles-arent-ending-theyre-just-beginning\/\" title=\"Two Years After Lockdowns, The West\u2019s Troubles Aren\u2019t Ending \u2014 They\u2019re Just Beginning\">corporate media betray<\/a> their prejudices. In many if not most occasions, the true corruption comes not from what media figures write, but what they decide <em>not to write<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Magazine&rsquo;s Whitewash<\/h2>\n<p>New York Magazine&rsquo;s Oct. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/press\/article\/an-update-to-our-readers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update<\/a> on the controversy read in its entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi&rsquo;s work during the 2024 campaign. They reached the same&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/press\/article\/a-note-to-our-readers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conclusion<\/a>&nbsp;as the magazine&rsquo;s initial internal review of her published work, finding no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. Nevertheless, the magazine and Nuzzi agreed that the best course forward is to part ways. Nuzzi is a uniquely talented writer and we have been proud to publish her work over her nearly eight years as our Washington Correspondent. We wish her the best.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In noting the fact that representatives for the magazine would not answer my questions about whether it would release the full results of its &ldquo;independent&rdquo; investigation so that readers could judge the behavior of the magazine for itself, I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/24\/corrupt-reporters-like-olivia-nuzzi-are-destroying-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guessed<\/a> that New York Mag would likely put out &ldquo;a short and sanitized summary while keeping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-reporters-like-olivia-nuzzi-are-destroying-democracy\/\" title=\"Corrupt &#039;Reporters&#039; Like Olivia Nuzzi Are Destroying Democracy\">damning details private<\/a>,&rdquo; use the report to fire Nuzzi, and let another Democrat outlet hire her quietly in several months. In short, they&rsquo;d employ a &ldquo;solution&rdquo; to paper over the issue without dealing with the underlying problem.<\/p>\n<p>Other than avoiding the word &ldquo;fire&rdquo; or &ldquo;terminate&rdquo; in the statement &mdash; which lawyers for Nuzzi and the magazine likely spent hours negotiating over &mdash; that&rsquo;s exactly what happened. Hush up the matter, let Nuzzi go to some other leftist publication, and move on as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Bias of Omission<\/h2>\n<p>But the tell came in the statement claiming that New York Magazine and the &ldquo;independent&rdquo; review discovered &ldquo;no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias&rdquo; in Nuzzi&rsquo;s &ldquo;published work.&rdquo; Those two <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">cleverly parsed words leave<\/a> a hole big enough to drive a Mack truck through &mdash; because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-finally-admit-biden-poses-grave-danger-to-country\/\" title=\"Media Finally Admit Biden Poses Grave Danger To Country\">problem isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t the words Nuzzi <em>did<\/em> write, but the words she <em>didn&rsquo;t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As I noted several weeks ago, Nuzzi, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/conspiracy-of-silence-to-protect-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by her own admission<\/a>, withheld evidence for months about President Joe Biden&rsquo;s mental decline that she first came to know about in January and saw firsthand during events surrounding the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Dinner in April. She failed to publish anything on the matter until July, after Biden&rsquo;s atrocious performance in the June presidential debate finally made his health and mental fitness a topic that neither the media nor Biden could ignore.<\/p>\n<p>But ignore the matter both Nuzzi and her colleagues did for months. And in Nuzzi&rsquo;s case, she has admitted she sat on damning information about one presidential candidate (Biden) that she witnessed with her own eyes, even as she was having an inappropriate relationship with another presidential candidate (Kennedy).<\/p>\n<h2>Read Between the Lines<\/h2>\n<p>In many cases, reporters demonstrate their corruption not through their words but through their silence. I had one <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/24\/corrupt-reporters-like-olivia-nuzzi-are-destroying-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admit as much to me<\/a> in October 2020, claiming that colleagues would not write negative stories about Biden for fear of costing him the election. That statement speaks both to the weakness of Joe Biden as a candidate &mdash; whereby reporters feared that a single story could cashier his entire presidential campaign &mdash; and the corrupt ways in which the media silence stories that do not meet their preferred narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The examples are almost too numerous to mention. They also go well beyond the &ldquo;conspiracy of silence&rdquo; regarding Biden&rsquo;s mental health condition in the months and years leading up to the June presidential debate, and the stories about Hunter Biden&rsquo;s infamous laptop the media suppressed four years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For instance, how many Americans know that, while serving in the Senate, Joe Biden offered legislation to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/08\/joe-biden-tried-multiple-times-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sunset Medicare and Social Security<\/a> every four years? Was the press too lazy to dig into Biden&rsquo;s lengthy Senate career or too corrupt to report on the results when they did? (More likely both.) Why was an outlet like Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/10\/politico-published-20-stories-about-trumps-taxes-and-only-1-about-joe-bidens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fixated<\/a> &mdash; one could say obsessed &mdash; with the taxes of former President Donald Trump, even as current President Joe Biden was spending months trying to get legislation through Congress to raise a Medicare tax Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/06\/joe-biden-dodged-half-a-million-in-taxes-and-he-wants-you-to-pay-your-fair-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went to great lengths<\/a> to avoid paying himself?<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, New York Magazine&rsquo;s statement claiming it suffered no damage to its integrity from <em>l&rsquo;affaire des Nuzzi<\/em> isn&rsquo;t credible for the same reason the corporate media as a whole aren&rsquo;t credible: What the press doesn&rsquo;t say is far more powerful than what it does.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corporate media&#8217;s corruption is highly predictable. Weeks ago, I anticipated how New York Magazine would handle the controversy involving Olivia Nuzzi and Robert F. 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