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NYT, finally, sort of
NYT, finally, sort of
At The New York Times, they’re finally willing to say something, sort of: “Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age.” But as the clinical psychologists Drs. John Gartner and Harry Segal have pointed out week after week on the podcast Shrinking Trump, it’s not really, or simply, a question of age. Joe Biden’s brain, they have said, is aging. But Donald Trump’s brain, they have said, is dementing.
#NewYorkTimes#truth
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NYT, finally, sort of
Sanewashing
Sanewashing
Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at The New York Times: “Why does the media sanewash Trump? It’s all a part of the false-equivalence I’ve been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.”
#media#NewYorkTimes#politics#truth
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Sanewashing
“False balance” in the NYT
“False balance” in the NYT
Margaret Sullivan, a former public editor of The New York Times, writes about “an ugly case of ‘false balance’” in that newspaper. It’s in a story about Kamala Harris’s and Donald Trump’s plans to increase afforable housing.
#NewYorkTimes
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“False balance” in the NYT
John Gruber nails it (Peter Baker)
John Gruber nails it (Peter Baker)
John Gruber: “The Times can give Peter Baker as much ink as they want as a columnist. But they should stop calling him a “reporter”. He’s nothing of the sort, and hasn’t been for a long time.”
#NewYorkTimes
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John Gruber nails it (Peter Baker)
An elliptical FLOTUS?
An elliptical FLOTUS?
It’s speech or writing that might be elliptical, not a person. I think the word the Times needed here is “enigmatic.”
#NewYorkTimes#words
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An elliptical FLOTUS?
Paul Harvey redux
Paul Harvey redux
it sounds as though Peter Baker is attempting to channel Paul Harvey.
#NewYorkTimes
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Paul Harvey redux
“Bad news about Biden”
“Bad news about Biden”
“The New York Times has apparently devoted half a floor in its Eighth Avenue headquarters to a search for bad news about Biden, and then they reserve a space nearly every day above the fold on the front page for whatever grain of grim shit the Biden hunters have managed to come up with.”
#NewYorkTimes
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“Bad news about Biden”
A chart, not especially helpful
A chart, not especially helpful
The New York Times has created an ingenious scrolling chart (gift link) to sort out congressional Republican responses to the second indictment. The only problem: an ingenious scrolling chart is not especially helpful for anyone who wants to check on a particular member of Congress.
#design#NewYorkTimes
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A chart, not especially helpful
NYT, sheesh
NYT, sheesh
“She has also been suffering from a deterioration in her short-term memory and her ability to hold conversations for more than a year.”
#NewYorkTimes#sheesh
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NYT, sheesh
NYT, sheesh
NYT, sheesh
“His lawyers’ own foibles are seldom disqualifying, so long as they defend him in the manner he desires.”
#NewYorkTimes#sheesh
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NYT, sheesh
NYT vs. Guardian
NYT vs. Guardian
I left a comment on the Times article, noting that it’s a remarkably demure account of yesterday’s cult gathering. Letting the details go unreported increases the danger that Trump and his followers pose to our democracy.
#democracy#journalism#NewYorkTimes#autocracy
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NYT vs. Guardian
Unhelpful reporting
Unhelpful reporting
The New York Times reports that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated with raccoon dogs for sale at a market in Wuhan, China. But the article never explains why raccoon dogs were being sold there.
#COVID-19#NewYorkTimes
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Unhelpful reporting