Within this link, the New York Times covers President Trump allowing for churches to share their political views and put forth endorsements for their desired candidates. This would involve overturning the Johnson Amendment. Any news source is going to not only cover stories that best fir their own interest as a publication, but it is directly shown by who they interview, and which events they choose to attend to get those interviews.
As an editor for the school paper, we are always pressured, for good reason, to get both sides of the story and remain extremely unbiased. I think that the mass media gets away with this, or gets around this so easily.
This is interesting take on the media covering what Trump believes in because it is usually his negative actions and harsh, opinions. Here is standing up for everyone's freedom of speech including the pastor's and the church's opinion.
The NYT is considered liberal so it can show their lack of biases by covering what may be a conservative topic. The light they are going to shine on it is going to be different than if The Wall Street Journal covered it, being more towards the conservative side, than the New York Times is.
The ads that are shown on the articles we read in the NYT is going to be the funding indicators. The ads I have seen from accessing this article include simple mobile.com, airbnb, and a slippers ad. These seem to be low key, non pressing companies. I would look at it aligning with the way the NYT writes their content and their entire tone. Thesis who is keeping them afloat, aside from the subscriptions, these ads are crucial.
I think this can be considered toxic sludge because anything we read is going to have a hidden agenda and going to be biased in a way. This may not be extremely toxic, but it is a part of the media that we get our information from, since we can not be there directly to get the news for ourselves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/trump-johnson-amendment-political-activity-churches.html?_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/?utm_term=.456d9fb94682
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