{"id":2695993,"date":"2026-11-02T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-york-times-is-getting-really-really-ridiculous\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:02:40","slug":"the-new-york-times-is-getting-really-really-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-york-times-is-getting-really-really-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Is Getting Really, Really Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fthe-new-york-times-is-getting-really-really-ridiculous%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=2695993&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 piece argues that the New York Times is moving away from impartial journalism and tilting strongly left-either deliberately to attract far-left subscribers or inadvertently becuase senior editors aren\u2019t restraining a younger, more ideological staff. The writer says this shift is increasingly obvious and offers several recent examples.<\/p>\n<p>First, a TV column advising what to watch on election night named NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN but omitted Fox News; the column\u2019s author, Shivani gonzalez, has public ties to liberal political causes and past work for a progressive New York state politician. The author of the piece says Gonzalez didn\u2019t answer a request explaining why Fox was left out.<\/p>\n<p>The column criticizes Times leadership-publisher A.G. Sulzberger and executive editor Joe Kahn-for failing to provide oversight while publicly praising the paper\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p>It then points to two front-page stories by Tim Balk that the author sees as favoring Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed and downplaying or mischaracterizing criticism of him. The writer contends the Times treats attacks on El-sayed as Islamophobic and soft-pedals his extreme statements about Israel, including allegations of genocide and calls to cut arms to Israel, as well as controversial ads tied to his allies that some Democrats have condemned as anti-Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>the author highlights a Times book review of a Holocaust-family memoir that, in the reviewer\u2019s view, unfairly criticizes the book for not addressing Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza. The piece also notes that the site\u2019s automated recommendations linked the memoir review to coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and Donald Trump. The columnist concludes these examples are further proof that the Times has become biased and, in the writer\u2019s words, \u201cridiculous.\u201d  <\/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>Each day brings new evidence that the <em>New York Times<\/em> is abandoning nonpartisan independence and instead embracing the hard left.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not entirely clear whether this is intentional or accidental. The &#8220;intentional&#8221; interpretation sees the shift as a deliberate business choice aimed at achieving revenue growth by courting an international far-left audience of paying subscribers. The &#8220;accidental&#8221; interpretation sees it as a failure of the paper\u2019s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, and his well-intentioned if imperfect top editors to enforce their old-fashioned standards on the younger and more ideologically motivated staffers who make the day-to-day decisions that shape the news and opinion coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, it\u2019s increasingly and glaringly apparent.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example comes with the paper\u2019s advice on what to watch on election night. Under the heading &#8220;Election Night Coverage,&#8221; the &#8220;This Week on TV&#8221; column recommends NBC News and notes, &#8220;ABC, CBS and CNN will also carry live coverage and analysis, beginning at 8 p.m.&#8221; Fox News doesn\u2019t get a mention? It\u2019s strange\u2014as if the <em>Times<\/em> is trying to pretend that Fox News, which gets significantly higher ratings than CNN, doesn\u2019t even exist.<\/p>\n<p>The TV column appears under the byline of Shivani Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Ms. Gonzalez, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shivanigonzalez\/\">her Instagram account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Her LinkedIn profile lists her as a volunteer for the Liberal Party of Canada, basically Canada\u2019s equivalent of the Democrats, and the rival to the more pro-American Canadian Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Her LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shivani-gonzalez-7a0380104\/\">profile<\/a> also lists her as having served from June 2019 to February 2021 as a communications coordinator and director of communications in the New York State Assembly. State government records show she worked for a member of the Assembly, Yuh-Line Niou, who was a Democrat and also a candidate of the far-left Working Families Party. In a May 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J9EPIH84FhE&#038;t=434s\">interview<\/a> in connection with a campaign for state Senate, Niou said &#8220;We have seen government that has become more fascist daily&#8221; and said she was running to &#8220;fight this fascist regime.&#8221; Niou added, &#8220;We have to tax the rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The politics job allowed me to go back into journalism, understanding the impact of the stories that were being told and how stories can really garner support for legislation. Politics and journalism are really cyclical,&#8221; Gonzalez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensjournal.ca\/from-qj-to-the-new-york-times-a-conversation-with-shivani-gonzalez\/\">explained<\/a> to her college newspaper, which described her as &#8220;living every creative\u2019s dream in New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez did not reply to my email about why Fox News was left off her list.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to pick on some lowly news assistant from Canada. It\u2019s not her fault if she doesn\u2019t understand the difference between news and politics. But where is the <em>Times<\/em> management? A.G. Sulzberger and <em>Times<\/em> executive editor Joe Kahn take themselves super-seriously. It seems like every other day they are giving a lecture at a journalism school or participating in a podcast interview about how irreplaceable and valuable the <em>Times<\/em> is, in this, its 175th anniversary year, precisely because it is independent and nonpartisan and therefore credible. Where is the adult supervision?<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just the television listings. Today\u2019s <em>Times<\/em> front page includes two above-the-fold articles boosting the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. Both articles carry the byline of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/socialists-are-not-communists-new-york-times-insists\/\">Tim Balk<\/a>, who in 2015, as the assistant opinion editor of the <em>Daily Northwestern<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynorthwestern.com\/2015\/09\/21\/opinion\/balk-the-benefit-of-trump\/\">called<\/a> Donald Trump a &#8220;clown&#8221; and declared, &#8220;In a Republican primary field littered with climate-change deniers, xenophobes and out-of-touch political dinosaurs, Trump might be the worst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One <em>Times<\/em> article by Balk declares, &#8220;in Michigan, Republicans have targeted the Democratic Senate nominee, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, with Islamophobic attacks. President Trump has described Dr. El-Sayed as a \u2018vicious, violent jihadist.\u2019&#8221; The <em>Times<\/em>, which is constantly reminding us that not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic, can\u2019t seem to wrap its mind around the possibility that not all criticism of an extremist Senate candidate who is Muslim is Islamophobic.<\/p>\n<p>Another front-page <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/01\/us\/elections\/stevens-rogers-el-sayed-michigan-senate.html\">article<\/a> by Balk, about a Democratic member of Congress from Michigan endorsing El-Sayed\u2019s Republican opponent, was originally headlined online by the <em>Times<\/em> as &#8220;Democratic Feud in Michigan Escalates as Senate Primary Loser Joins Republican.&#8221; That one bends over backward to euphemize and soft-pedal El-Sayed\u2019s positions. For example, it says, &#8220;Ms. Stevens, a moderate and a strong supporter of Israel, often clashed with Dr. El-Sayed, an outspoken progressive critic of the country, during their contentious primary race.&#8221; El-Sayed is not just a &#8220;critic&#8221; of Israel; he\u2019s falsely accused it of genocide, said it\u2019s as bad as Iran, said he\u2019d cut off all arms to Israel, and has been refusing to condemn a bizarre commercial aired by his allies that groundlessly blames the U.S.-Israel relationship for the cost of groceries in American supermarkets. Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepJoshG\/status\/2116581200689299553\">called it<\/a> &#8220;the Jew-hating ad.&#8221; Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilyfjacobs\/status\/2116580420351365552\">called it<\/a> an example of El-Sayed\u2019s &#8220;fixation with Jewish money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As if all that were not enough, Sunday\u2019s <em>Times<\/em> book review carried a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/17\/books\/review\/auslander-michael-moritz.html\">review<\/a> of a book by Sequoia venture capitalist Michael Moritz about his Jewish family\u2019s history as refugees from the Nazis. The <em>Times<\/em> review, by Julian Borger, a journalist from the far-left British <em>Guardian<\/em>, manages to fault Moritz\u2019s family Holocaust memoir for, of all things, failing to include condemnations of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.        <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> review reports, &#8220;Moritz does not mention considering moving to Israel, never having &#8216;felt kinship with the odious Israeli settlers and their vile political representatives&#8217; who have &#8216;plundered&#8217; the lands of the Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even that denunciation, though, doesn\u2019t go far enough, in the <em>Times<\/em> reviewer\u2019s view: &#8220;A memoir of the Holocaust is under no obligation to assess current events, but Moritz\u2019s book explicitly sets out to find contemporary parallels. It seems important how we, the descendants of the victims and survivors alike, confront the ongoing conflict in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The review concludes, &#8220;Moritz says that after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, he felt \u2018emotionally connected with Israel\u2019s fate\u2019 for the first time; he doesn\u2019t linger on the wholesale destruction of Gaza that followed. Given the book\u2019s contemporary framing, I would have liked to learn Moritz\u2019s views of his former company Sequoia Capital\u2019s investments in an Israeli defense industry start-up dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence into military hardware, for instance. The omission feels striking in an otherwise thoughtful work on coming to terms with the long shadow of the Shoah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably, the <em>Times<\/em> machine-generated content-suggestion system, based on the text of the review of a <em>Jewish family Holocaust memoir<\/em>, serves up &#8220;See more on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/israel-hamas-gaza\">The Israel-Hamas War<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/donald-trump\"> Donald Trump<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;More on Gaza and the West Bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  This is gross and just the latest example of how the <em>Times<\/em> has become ridiculous.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times shifts left; unclear if intentional or not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4157,"featured_media":2695994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Times-Square-Style-Newspaper-Collage-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7375,5157,4188,51059],"class_list":["post-2695993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-criticism","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-nytimes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Times-Square-Style-Newspaper-Collage-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696001,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695993\/revisions\/2696001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}