The New York Times Bombshell That Bombed

[PatrickforO]

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Source: Politico

It arrived on Page One of the New York Times last Wednesday with all the subtlety of a supertanker berthing at a sailing marina, consuming all the editorial space above the fold. Based on more than 100,000 pages of documents, countless interviews, and the voluminous Freedom of Information Act requests that accompany such investigations, the piece, written by three of the paper’s ace reporters, was more than 18 months in the making. Overflowing eight broadsheet pages, the 15,000-word story, titled “Trump Took Part In Suspect Schemes to Evade Tax Bills,” served also as the subject of a Showtime documentary. It accused President Donald Trump of “outright fraud” involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

The piece stirred both New York City and state regulators to commence investigations of their own that could ensnare the Trump family in years of consuming legal battles and force them to choke up hundreds of millions in fines and penalties. But even though the Times aggregated this piece for slow readers, produced clever video takes on the material and reprinted the original as a special section of the Sunday paper, the story has all but melted from sight. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called it “very boring,” as did Trump. By the time the pundits convened on the big Sunday political shows, the story was a goner—according to Matt Gertz at Media Matters, none of the shows covered it. (State of the Union mentioned it in passing; Joy Reid had a segment; and CNN’s press show, Reliable Sources, interviewed one of the Times authors.)

Another reason the story might not have entered the nation’s bloodstream is that it contained too much for anybody—outside of the most committed—to read in a single sitting.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/09/new-york-times-trump-taxes-221144

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I know this is a day old...I know it. But you know what? No one else put it on here and we all need to be aware that this could be the death knell of Trump's horrible presidency. So please don't take it down.

...it contained too much for anybody—outside of the most committed—to read in a single sitting. NOW THAT IS PATHETIC.

[irresistable]

1. It didn't bomb in the New York state and city governments

That is what matters.

[hlthe2b]

2. I thought it should have been a 10 part series, followed by the whole article as an insert.

Yes, I too bemoan the 140 character nature of our society's attention span, but it is a reality.

Sadly, I think this is why the Trump-Russia scandal has not gotten the traction it should have gotten. People can not keep up with the deep weeds of the revelations versus all the other scandals.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[unblock]

4. someone remind me again how the media has a liberal bias?

imagine for one minute if hillary or obama or schumer or pelosi or warren or sanders has a story like this come out.

it would have been wall-to-wall, congressional investigations, stories every single day on multiple outlets through the election and beyond.

[bearsfootball516]

5. I think part of it is Trump exhaustion.

It's a huge story, no doubt about it. But literally dozens of times over the past few years, something has broken and people said "Well, this could be the death knell for Trump" and then nothing ever happens.

At this point, I believe everything in the story, but I also believe nothing will actually happen to Trump because of it. I hope I'm wrong.

[DonViejo]

6. Locking...

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