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Paul Krugman confirms what I’ve long suspected: the rot at the NYT sits not with the reporters and essayists, but with the editors.
And the editors aren’t necessarily handing down explicit orders to bury the truth and massage the fascists’s feet. No. They’re just grinding the reporters down by making it a daily battle •not• to do those things. Sabotage by exhaustion; journalistic death by a thousand cuts.
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@inthehands One thing that backs this up is the longstanding NYT practice of slapping a conservative-biased headline on a basically decent article.
@CurtAdams
Strong agree. I think the moment the light bulb went on for me was their reporting on Debby Ramirez. They had an absolute •bombshell• that there was a second Kavanaugh accuser, and the headline they ran was:
“Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.”
…and then what was obviously the reporter’s original lede was just sitting there something like 10 paragraphs in. Could hardly ask for a starker example of the editor’s hand in the finished product.