WTFNYT!?!

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Jesse Eisinger ✔ @eisingerj

This is an inexcusable @nytimes headline. To soften and normalize Trump’s behavior on this week of all weeks is something else.



9:12 PM - Oct 16, 2019

[blm]

1. AGAIN?

Oh fer fvck’s sake.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. And it's their f*cking job to tells us.

Instead they try to feed us an orange Russian asset as if he really won an election.

[Frances]

3. Nancy Pelosi doesn't do melt downs

[Turin_C3PO]

4. WaPo is way better than NYT.

NYT engages in “both-siderism” far too often. The Post though, has been excellent.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Agreed 1000%

[babylonsister]

11. Agree. The WaPo's reporters/journalists have been outstanding

The NYT scoops, too. I imagine their journalists are none too happy.

[dalton99a]

16. Bezos is a greedy selfish asshole and a slave driver in his Amazon sweatshops, but

he leaves his journalists alone. He knows the reputation of the Washington Post and its long-term value.

[Duppers]

21. Amen!

I cancelled my subscription to NYT long ago. Have one to Washington Post. 👍

[11 Bravo]

25. Agreed. I subscribe to both, but have come to trust only one.

[Ohiogal]

5. Oh ffs

I’m getting so sick and tired of their false equivalency!

[dweller]

6. expect no less

the morph is on ...

fake news...

✌🏼

[Hoyt]

7. Headline is fine. Everyone knows who the mad buffoon is, some just don't care.

[madaboutharry]

8. Looks like they changed it.

Now it says: “Inside a Derailed White House meeting”

The comment section was gold, full of comments attacking the headline.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. Their front page still has the crappy headline:

The article itself sucks, too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/trump-pelosi-white-house.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

By Katie Rogers
Oct. 16, 2019
Updated 10:11 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — You know a White House meeting has gone off the rails when the president of the United States and the speaker of the House cannot agree over the precise insult one called the other.

According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump called her a “third-grade” politician during a combative meeting with congressional leaders of both parties on Wednesday about the worsening situation in northern Syria. The White House and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said Mr. Trump actually called Ms. Pelosi “third-rate.”

At one particularly tense moment, Ms. Pelosi informed the president that “all roads with you lead to Putin,” referring to Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president.

And so, on Day 1,000 of his presidency, that is where things stand between Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosi, who have a fraught history of derailing meetings shortly after pledging to work together, including one in January, when the president abruptly stood up, said “bye bye,” and stormed out. A meeting in May basically ended before it began.

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[XRubicon]

10. Let's see... uh... which one of the two has repeatedly melted down in public?

One of these things is not like the other.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Better: one of these people is not like the other...

[XRubicon]

13. I was riffing on sesame street

[Baitball Blogger]

15. It worked for Trump again.

Project your flaw on your opponent, and then when it comes back play the false equivalence card.

Shame on you NYT!

[dlk]

17. The Mainstream Media's Bogus Bothsiderism is Toxic

This headline is yet another glaring example of their assault on facts and reality, with a side of sexism thrown in for good measure.

[dalton99a]

18. All the Bothsiderism That's Fit to Print.

What a fucking joke

[Dennis Donovan]

19. Frum: "Someone was knocked down in the 11th round, Holyfield and Tyson just disagree on who..."

Link to tweet

Yes, exactly!

[JHB]

20. Only One Option...

Credit to http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. Eh. Just seems a little tongue in cheek to me.

[Hortensis]

23. The NYT has been PROVEN to work for Republican control of government.

They consistently over months did this exact kind of thing -- and also much worse -- against Democrats and especially bad against Hillary; most headlines were spun negative against.

But thanks for pointing out this latest, blatant evidence of journalistic corruption.

And the AP, whose alerts and articles appear in thousands of media and on hundreds of millions of private screens every day, is also dirty.

“What is spreading today is repressive kleptocracy, led by rulers motivated by greed rather than by the deranged idealism of Hitler or Stalin or Mao. Such rulers rely less on terror and more on rule twisting, the manipulation of information, and the co-option of elites. Their goal is self-enrichment; the corrosion of the rule of law is the necessary means.

As a shrewd local observer explained to me on a visit to Hungary in early 2016, “The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.”

~ David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

[MFGsunny]

24. Let's face it :: The Gray Lady has shown herself to be suffering from ....

.... SERIOUS split-personality and identity issues.

Some GREAT reporters, yes!
But then we also get some sell-out headline-grabbing just like this one.

[Downtown Hound]

26. You shouldn't be surprised

NYT has been crap for quite awhile now.

[maxrandb]

27. Looks like someone grabbed the gray lady by the "hoo-hah" nt