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
"legacy" can't come soon enough, AFAIC. I'm looking forward to Wikipedia saying "The New York Times was a newspaper . . ."
ReplyDeleteThank you NYT. Do you have any subscribers left?
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ReplyDeleteNYT 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:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/05/open-thread-reading-is-fundamental-as-is-journalism/
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Voters think Dems are elitist snobs because legacy media people are elitist snobs and many of those are the NYT and NPR people who read as "Democrats" to voters, despite them actually being people who hate Dems but love their rich GOP war daddies.
ReplyDelete"Wouldn't it have been nice for us to have said this BEFORE the election rather than scream about the coming recession that never was? Haw, haw! Now excuse us as we bow down to our new overlord..."
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