I'm getting tired of reading media reports that cast everything the POTUS does as "getting even" or "retribution." While he is certainly animated by animus, this overly simplistic story line once again makes it all about Trump, and it almost gives him a pass for the fallout from every new dumbfuck thing he does.
It also tends to detract from the seriousness of the latest dumbfuckery, as if to suggest the POTUS's personal grudges and wrecking democratic norms/checks and balances aren't the same thing.
Hey, @washingtonpost.com. I hope this article was in the Sports section. Maybe Style? Because it sure as hell doesn't deserve to be classified as "news". #BrokenPost
Good God. The #BrokenPost revised the headline and made it in some ways worse. "Here's why it is used" implies there is a good reason. There is not. This head and subhed also now elide the danger--children overdosing--and the culprit: RFK Jr. WTF is wrong with you people?
Screw the "Wall Street decision makers." How about the rest of us? Isn't that who you should be writing for?
After a Blowout Week, Wall Street Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The New York Times • Rob Copeland, Lauren Hirsch and Maureen FarrellWorldwide protest. Millions.
Under the f***ing fold.
#BrokenTimes
Too bad Dems had millions of people in the streets.
If they had a few people in a diner instead, maybe the press would have interviewed them to see what they’re mad about
#brokentimes. I've read estimates that 3 to 5 million people took to the streets nationwide. That's huge. Let's keep this going!
Still too much stenographing as if what the administration is saying is true. 25 years I've been here and the #brokentimes still doesn't get it.
#brokentimes Sad to see the "paper of record" become the "paper of recording administration takes." The turnout at the protests this weekend was historic, and warranted coverage above the fold.
I just opened my New York Times app to catch up on the millions of people protesting in the US.
There was nothing.
Zero.
I’m not joking; have a look yourself.
Can anyone update me? (and the NYT!)
This is the image the #BrokenTimes could have run with its story, if it were not trying to fluff the Führer. It's the picture the AP ran:
#BrokenTimes puff piece for a propagandist.
As his destruction unfurled, why did the #BrokenTimes choose to show Trump in a five-day-old photo at the White House, supposedly presidential, when he has instead been golfing with Saudis in Mar-a-Lago? That's a rhetorical question.
Because the dark cloud is Trump's, the #BrokenTimes contorts itself to find a silver lining to his pointless economic isolationism and destruction. #ButBidensEggs
Trump’s Tariffs Will Wound Free Trade, but the Blow May Not Be Fatal
The New York Times • Mark LandlerSo I was curious to see how the media was treating the protests. #BrokenTimes had it so far down the page I didn't realize at first they were covering it. #BrokenPost at least had it visible as the 2nd biggest story. But kudos to @inquirer.com so had it as the lead story. #media
Literally normalization. More like a constant and unnecessary scourge caused by anti-science extremists, #BrokenTimes.
Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal
The New York Times • Teddy RosenbluthThey also got satellite images a few hours after the attack which show "five ambulances and the fire truck had been moved off the road and clustered together" and "Two days later, a new satellite image of the area showed the vehicles were apparently buried. Next to disturbed earth are three Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator"
Yet with all that, the NYT lede only grants that the video "appears" to contradict they Israeli version
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The New York Times • Farnaz Fassihi and Christoph KoettlMore of the #BrokenTimes' stenographic gullibility here: Patel and Bongino want to "restore trust." No, they went to undermine justice and establish a police state. The gap between reality and the Times' get-along worldview is a canyon of credulity.
Now examine the #BrokenTimes' lead headline: Worse than merely soft-pedaling Trump's intentional destruction, it sanewashes him, stenographically explaining his action, inferring sense. This is its Trump-centric worldview when it should be public-centric.
