For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Legacy media: It's condescending and elitist to go around telling the proles stuff they don't want to believe.
Also legacy media: Golly, these proles sure are clueless.
Burn The Lifeboats
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"legacy" can't come soon enough, AFAIC. I'm looking forward to Wikipedia saying "The New York Times was a newspaper . . ."
Thank you NYT. Do you have any subscribers left?
NYT new motto,
It is our task given by wealthy owners to tell the people the story they want them to hear and not the reporting they need.
In other words, "punish the afflicted and pleasure the comfortable"
Rayne at Emptywheel thinks we need a refresher in the basics of journalism in a big fat hurry:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/05/open-thread-reading-is-fundamental-as-is-journalism/
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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