Ralph Nader appears to be on a crusade.
This isn’t the first time the 88-year-old has picked out a target and gone after it with all he’s got. Most famously, Nader went after the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in the creation of a host of influential laws and watchdog groups that have saved untold American lives.
Now the four-time presidential candidate is going after a very different foe: The New York Times – specifically the paper’s focus on soccer at the expense of his preferred sport of baseball. Nader hit out at the Times on Thursday for prioritizing Real Madrid over the “Real Yankees.”
The @nytimes sports page thinks its readers are more interested, by far, in Real Madrid than in the Real Yankees in New York City. Yankees and Mets baseball games are almost invisible. Not even the scores are printed in the Times suburban sports edition anymore. Go figure. -R
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) May 12, 2022
As it turns out, this was not the first time that Nader complained about the Times – and indeed other journalistic outlets too – covering the sport at the expense of other topics he preferred.
The day after Sunday’s daytime baseball games, the @NYTSports editor covers the first two pages with European soccer stories, and leaves the rest of the section without any baseball coverage. Week after week, the guy must think readers want more and more Euro soccer stories. -R
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) May 10, 2021
Who would have thought the NY Times sports pages (@NYTSports) would give more coverage to European soccer than American baseball? And recently, more coverage to women’s basketball than Major League Baseball. At least in its suburban edition. Why? -R
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) April 21, 2021
The @nytimes sports page has become the soccer sports page, at the expense of other sports, especially baseball. Whose in charge? Yankee games, All-Star games downplayed while soccer gets full page photos and goal-by-goal pictures. Look at @washingtonpost's better balance. -R
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) July 12, 2019
@nbc was showing European soccer. @FOXTV was also showing European soccer.
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) May 1, 2017
In any event, it sounds like we may get to even more from Nader very soon.
I'm ready for an interview. -R https://t.co/Yjfr99U3sf
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) May 12, 2022
This should be good.
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