"You may wonder why a U.S. newspaper should be so interested in such a parochial UK story. But then you would be ignoring the NYT’s obsession with portraying modern Britain — particularly since Brexit — as a country riven by prejudice, culturally backward, economically disintegrating and crumbling into irrelevance.
Does it matter? Yes, it does. The NYT is still read religiously by those in power in the U.S. — and as the UK seeks a U.S. trade deal, the message from America’s most self-important newspaper would be: What’s the point?
Boris Johnson is the principal target. Despite their glaring differences, he is lazily lumped together by the newspaper with its most loathed hate figure, Donald Trump. For the NYT, the Brexit vote and Trump’s election as President were synonymous.
If Britain could sue the NYT for defamation, it would have a field day. Reporters and photographers search out the most negative, depressing stories and pictures of life in the UK that they can."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10536773/TOM-LEONARD-DOES-Americas-smuggest-newspaper-pathological-loathing-Britain.html
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