Dan GillmorMay 22, 2023

It seems more and more clear that the Republican extremists in control of the House don't want to prevent default on the debt they helped to create.

They WANT a default. They want the economy to crash, and then take total control of Washington (and beyond) next year.

They need help from Big Journalism to do this. And they're getting it, as the political press treats this extortion/sabotage as just another horse race story with two roughly equivalent sides.

Show threadDan GillmorMay 23, 2023
What kind of "journalism" are we seeing? A beyond-wretched both-sides treatment in the New York Times this weekend is a classic, and I mean that in the least flattering way. Here's Jonathan Chait's well-deserved evisceration of how bad the Times' willfully incompetent Washington bureau can be: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/debt-ceiling-congress-blame-republicans-democrats-default-new-york-times.html
Show threadJohn Breen
@dangillmor Even Captain Kangaroo made fun of the NYT. It was formative in my life, back in the day.
"All the news that's fit to print. And fresh fish daily".
The message was "read it, or wrap dead (but fresh) fish in it" - you get your money's worth, either way.
May 23, 2023 at 1:01amWeb