Abstract
The document analyzes the article "The New York Times, I Voted to Impeach Nixon. I'd Do the Same for Trump" published in The New York Times on September 25, 2019. In doing so, it compares it to two other articles on the same subject: one from The Guardian, the other from The Daily Mail.
Extract
[...] - Elizabeth Holtzman (2019); The Guardian, Trump asked Ukraine leader for favor' and to investigate Biden, memo shows - Adam Gabbatt and Lauren Gambino (2019); the Daily Mail, 'It is a political war ' Donald Trump lashes out at Democrats minutes after transcript of his Ukraine call is published saying they 'built it up as the call from hell - it was a friendly call' - Emily Goodin (2019) - Print Media in the UK and the US Commentary Dating back from September, 25th the article from the American newspaper the New York Times, entitled Voted to Impeach Nixon. [...]
[...] Holtzman's article and The Daily Mail's article are completely opposed. They use the same rhetoric either to demonize Trump or the Democrats (we can note the use of hyperboles in The Daily Mail's article too: "lashes out", "the call from Hell", "the victim of a witch hunt" . Even if the parallel E. Holtzman draws between Trump and Nixon can be seen as quite relevant, one can regret the fact that her article lacks accurate quotes or evidence to support her accusations. [...]
[...] The way Elizabeth Holtzman presents the facts obviously shows that she absolutely wants Donald Trump to be impeached. The adamant comparison with former President Nixon and the Watergate scandal implicitly shows that to her, whether the impeachment procedure should succeed or not, he should eventually behave as Nixon did and resign. Since The New York Times is known to be close to the Democrats ideas, it is no wonder to read an article like E. Holtzman's, presenting the facts as a plot against Joe Biden. [...]
[...] Holtzman links the "Ukraine scandal" to a concept which is deeply rooted in the American Constitution: the fact that president who uses presidential powers for purely personal and political reasons, [ . ] commits an impeachable offense". Indeed, she considers that Trump actually aimed at dragging Biden's name through the mud in order to weaken the Democrats in the coming presidential elections. On top of that, Elizabeth Holtzman mentions the fact that Mr Trump apparently "[held] up military assistance to coerce Ukraine into investigating Mr Biden", which "could constitute bribery". [...]
[...] Contrary to her, the journalists from The Guardian, as well as the one from the Daily Mail (which is clearly known to be close to the Republicans), focus a lot more on direct quotations from the memo, being thus more distant and letting therefore the reader the possibility to have their own opinion about these quotes. The conclusion of the journalists from The Guardian is also interesting because even though we can feel there is no sympathy for Trump throughout the article ("Far from exonerating Trump, as the president had promised, the memo will more likely buoy Democrats . [...]
