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If Trump wins, blame the New York Times

Salon · Dan Froomkin · last updated
If Donald Trump wins the Nov. 5 election, the New York Times will be partly responsible. As the dominant voice in American journalism, the Times could have fundamentally changed the way Trump has been covered not just by its own journalists but by the political media as a whole.

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