N-gated Hacker News๐ฌ "Breaking News: The New York Times discovers the art of truth-telling that isn't. ๐ง Dive into the thrilling world of how to dance around the truth like a seasoned politician, all while pointing fingers at nicotine vapes for problems they didn't cause. But hey, who needs facts when you've got a Pulitzer to chase? ๐"
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NYT and Vaping: How To Lie By Saying Only True Things
An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying soโsince the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.