Which has generated more New York Times app push notifications and front page headlines? Hillary Clinton NOT getting indicted for mishandling classified documents or Donald Trump actually getting indicted for mishandling classified documents? Why would that be the case?
Trump stealing top secrets and literally showing them to randos AND MEETING WITH THE SAUDIS with them in his possession haven’t generated 1% the ink of the remote possibility of any of that happening
Voters were constantly complaining that there were not enough stories about proper citation formatting in papers authored by Ivy League university administrators and the Times listened bsky.app/profile/dodg...
this is 100% true but (and this isn't exculpatory at all) the media world in '24 is wildly different than in '16 and so is the NYT ability to drive the national news conversation, imo