Jeff JarvisApr 25, 2024
This is damning about The Times & A.G.:
"'All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day,' one Times journalist said. 'It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.'"
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Show threadJeff Jarvis
The hubris, the entitlement of The Times & A.G.:
"In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency."
Bullshit.
Apr 25, 2024 at 1:47pmWeb
Show threadJeff JarvisApr 25, 2024
And note this from Times editor Joe Kahn's appearance at INMA, saying the obvious part out loud:
“Our commitment to independent journalism, is a commitment to make many of our readers unhappy most of the times.”
All the news to give us fits.
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Show threadJeff JarvisApr 25, 2024
I await The Times' denials, protests, and complaints--and witchhunts for leakers--without the slightest self-reflection about how it could be wrong and needs to change.
Show threadJohn WilsonApr 26, 2024
@jeffjarvis I expect nothing less
Show threadjz.tuskApr 25, 2024

@jeffjarvis

Didn't Sulzberger say the same thing in an interview that @froomkin reported on?

Also, let's give their philosophy the most accurate description we can: "We're going to trigger the libs."

As for me, one Matty Yglesias was too many - I don't need an entire newspaper devoted to contrarian hot-takes.

Show threadjz.tuskApr 25, 2024

@jeffjarvis

In my view, Biden's decision to tell the Times to go lump it is just yet another example of Biden being more fit for the job than I'd expected, and further along the road of a common sense agenda that helps the average American.

Show threadKevin EganApr 25, 2024
@jeffjarvis Explains a lot! What breathtaking arrogance…what blinkered provincialism! God forbid A.G. should be bothered to evaluate the President’s *record.*
Show threadjz.tuskApr 25, 2024

@jeffjarvis

Y'know, they've normalized it so deeply that it can take me a while to notice it:

Wouldn't it then also require an interview with the Times to verify that Trump is fit to hold the presidency? So they're going to interview Trump, and use the same standards to judge his competence? And they're going to hammer away at questions of Trump's competence until then?

Show threadjz.tuskApr 25, 2024

@jeffjarvis

Of course we all know the answers to those questions: of course they're not going to do that.

Covering for Trump, and holding him to lower standards, is partisan reporting. Please, remember this the next time you see the NYT saying that it is "independent"; they are not, they favor Trump