Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!
These new sources don't have to peddle garbage, even if it's an opinion piece, they just choose to. And when they do they deserve to be excoriated.
I get that NYT feels a need to have awful opinions from Bari Weiss because they think it makes them balanced and helps them in some way (CLICKS!!111) but to people who grew weary of bothsideism long before Trump was president, it just seems like they're trying to create a buzz at the expense of their own integrity (much like ESPN and their stupid sports shouting shows that people get mad at and keep watching because they're stupid).
Anyhow your point is well taken about the difference between opinion articles and "just reporting the new" but that line was blurry a long time ago and in this case I don't think it's even that blurry. Someone replied to that tweet making the comparison to how the media treated "waterboarding" and was too afraid to use the word "torture" during the Bush Admin. IMO if they can back up their claims factually (in the torture case you can probably use some Geneva convention standard, in this case it's even easier) they should just call a spade a spade.
Originally posted by Handyman
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I get that NYT feels a need to have awful opinions from Bari Weiss because they think it makes them balanced and helps them in some way (CLICKS!!111) but to people who grew weary of bothsideism long before Trump was president, it just seems like they're trying to create a buzz at the expense of their own integrity (much like ESPN and their stupid sports shouting shows that people get mad at and keep watching because they're stupid).
Anyhow your point is well taken about the difference between opinion articles and "just reporting the new" but that line was blurry a long time ago and in this case I don't think it's even that blurry. Someone replied to that tweet making the comparison to how the media treated "waterboarding" and was too afraid to use the word "torture" during the Bush Admin. IMO if they can back up their claims factually (in the torture case you can probably use some Geneva convention standard, in this case it's even easier) they should just call a spade a spade.
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