Yeah, on both sides, even.
Yep "it’s a disservice to the American people " But most of it is a polemic of why trump is a bad choice. Which is true, of course.
Right. There’s another thread here about John Kerry, where one line out of an hour was taken out of context and has been pushed to show Kerry wants the 1st Ad repealed. Which is absolutely not true. So, trump will give a long rambling nonsensical answer about sharks, Hannibal Lecter and pet eating, and the media will sane wash it. Harris could give a solid, educated reply, and they will take one line out of context.
There is no use playing that game. It is biased and fixed.
Gift link
Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/health/trump-health-records.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
The whole article is pretty critical of Trump, but more importantly, so is the headline
That’s nice. They’re also fluffing Vance as a presidential candidate.
OK, credit where it’s due - they FINALLY decided to stop sanewashing Trump for a day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html
If the NYT wants their October Surprise to be “See? We can bash Trump for his age too!”, I’m fine with that, tbh.
What’s wrong with trump is everything but his age.
His age is an issue too, but it’s way down the list.
Right now on the front page (below hurricane coverage) are two headlines. The bigger/higher one is “In Interviews, Kamala Harris Continues to Bob and Weave” (describing how NYT think she gives non-answers) and immediately below it is this one “In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics.” So they’ve moved from Harris not giving interviews to saying she’s not giving the right kind of answers, while Trump literally invoking honest-to-god eugenics is treated as a fascination and with a tone that implies it’s a normal kind of interest. Utterly insane.
I am posting a gift link to the NYT article you reference @squidfood.
Their criticism of Harris sounds to my ears like “How dare she do interviews in other media and not with us. Clearly she is not serious about these issues.”
Sulzberger clearly still has a stick up his ass because she hasn’t kissed the ring.
They absolutely should hammer his age. The whole point of getting Biden to drop out of the race was so that age could flip from being the Democrats’ biggest liability to their biggest advantage. If they let the age issue slip to the wayside, they’re throwing away a huge asset.
Instead of America wondering how long the 81-year old Biden can hang on, now it’s time to speculate about the 78-year old Trump.
And of course, she shouldn’t. Especially not now, it would make her look weak. And I know this is overly simplistic, but old media is dying right in front of us. And this is a prime example of it. I say this as someone who worked in the newspaper industry in various roles for most of 1995 to 2010. By 2010 I knew it was time to get out.
Her media swing provided a glimpse into how she often responds to unpleasant questions without answering them
trump, meanwhile, never answers any questions. Unpleasant, pleasant, easy, hard- his answers are a James Joycian Stream of Un-consciousness, with babbling about sharks, Hannibal Lecter, how to pronounce her name, etc.
If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
“If the Biden economy is doing so well, why don’t people feel like it’s doing well?”
When I’m put in charge of rewriting the Constitution, journalists will be banned from using passive voice in headlines.
I am not sure what you mean, or what the tweet means.
Active voice: “Man Kicks Dog”
Passive Voice: “Dog Kicked”
The headline is passive in that Trump’s rally is “marked by nativist attacks” while conveniently neglecting to mention who did the marking or what motivated them to so mark it.
Which was who and what? Apparently this rally is famous for some reason?
Exactly. You wouldn’t know from reading the headline that the people doing the nativist attacks are Trump’s fans and they’re there because he has deliberately been trying to whip up racial hatred in order to get himself elected and justify the Holocaust he wants to perpetrate against US citizens.