https://x.com/golub/status/1830342495441387979
Could have been anybody
Worth the 2 minutes to watch jbouie cook:
https://x.com/jeffjarvis/status/1830399625787822379
He never names his employer but it seems obvious he has a solid contempt for how bad the Times is on this stuff. The NYT story on this event is cited multiple times above for falsely claiming they didn’t know they quoted Hitler and for presenting a longtime Republican as a free-thinking former Democrat until the pandemic.
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This is like a parody of the pitchbot. “Donald Trump is a huge asshole, here’s why that’s a problem…for Kamala Harris.”
The piece itself doesn’t even really match the headline:
Harris is being criticized by Republicans for a lack of policy specificity and reversing previous positions on fracking and immigration. But her adoption of centrist positions also appears to be squeezing Trump and frustrating his efforts to land a decisive political attack. Her decision to take on high grocery prices with a vow to clamp down on supermarket giants might explain how she’s narrowed the gap with Trump on who is most trusted on the economy.
The flap over Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week also showed how the ex-president’s hardball tactics could hurt him as much as her.
JBouie is showing up trying to do a good job the right way (aka what newspapers did for decades and the ideal that they are supposed to try to live up to), and everyone else at the Times is like, “Get a load of this idiot, he thinks what we do here is capital-J Journalism. He doesn’t even realize all we do is bullshit to maximize pageviews! What an idiot!”
Dunno when his contract is up there, but I doubt he’ll be back.
(To be clear, he’s the good guy here and he’s every bit as intelligent as his colleagues. Some of them may be dumb, but most of what he has that they lack is simply morality and idealism.)
fwiw I just realized he posts stuff on TikTok daily, downloaded it just to follow him, he’s really good
https://x.com/Uncrewed/status/1831400083499458634
Pack it up boys and girls - we’ve got a winner!
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Worst take of the year goes to the Churchill was worse than Hitler guy.
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The fact that journalism appears to be solidly in “any click is a good click” mode really sucks, it’s like those videos of dumb “life hacks” that are designed to be made fun of
Nazis get their own bracket because otherwise they would always win.
I know a lot of people here weren’t big fans of his posting, but surely he wasn’t that bad.
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I mean yeah churchhill was a pretty odious human being, but wow i needed my eclipse glasses for that take
The sad part is I’m only like 60 percent sure PVN is referring to Churchill the former Prime Minister here.
It’s just omnipresent, the idea that Harris is perpetually the one who has to prove self in every single aspect of this campaign is so tilting. Trump fucking lost an election as an incumbent to a ticket Harris was on!! Everything should be about has Trump done anything in last 4 years to show he not a loser and there like zero discussion of it
I guess that’s what happens when right-wing nut jobs spend all their money buying media outlets.
Oddly enough I remember making a really similar joke at up and it similarly whooshing.
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