"Split Senate Clears Trump on Each Count in Finale of a Bitter Impeachment Battle," read the Times‘s front-page headline of Thursday's print edition. On a related note, the Times‘s coverage of Trump's acquittal in the Senate was slightly different from the paper's coverage of former President Bill Clinton's acquittal on impeachment charges in 1999. Again, a distinction without much of a difference, given the Washington press corps's general hostility toward Republicans. NYT editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum remarked that the paper was "inverting standard Washington practice" by publishing an anonymous quote from a journalist in an article by a Democratic politician.
In an effort to make his case, Brown cites a "journalist" who allegedly asked him, "how in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?" Brown accused his GOP colleagues of being cowards who, above all else, fear upsetting the commander in chief. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), was a broadside against the Republican senators who voted to acquit President Donald Trump of the impeachment charges filed by House Democrats.
Given the near-identical nature of the two professions, it was bound to happen sooner or later. The Times published an op-ed by a Democratic politician who quoted an anonymous journalist, also bashing Republicans. Journalists at the New York Times typically pepper their stories with anonymous quotes from Democrats bashing Republicans.
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