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 threadGregory HaysMay 23, 2023
@dangillmor "Even as highly opinionated left-leaning reporting overtakes other forms of news and analysis" in what fucking universe?
Show threadComrade Lion-O
@aristofontes @dangillmor Yes, indeed. It was a great article overall, but his dismissal of the "both sides cliché" was ridiculous. It's not true, but it somehow regularly predicts NYT coverage with remarkable accuracy.
May 23, 2023 at 10:07amWeb