no way NYT

lol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:m34vt2ca7xdvivhgibpxc46r/bafkreiewgp5xh2tojvxb4m4avw5omjshnqripmv43hmzubk77i6lbzhos4@jpeg

The New York Times needs to expand its reach to include the more modest, mainstream institutions of higher education where most American students go, like Cornell

Was gonna say, "Whaddya expect them to write about, Brown?"

heckuva school

My first thought was "Stanford is going to be really pissed off about this" until I realized that it's just as plausible that Stanford paid the NYT to be left off.

Let’s Talk About Biden, Trump and … Taylor Swift

jfc: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/business/dealbook/universities-antisemitism-harvard-mit-penn.html

Who Should Run Universities?

In the wake of a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard over antisemitism, a debate has arisen over whether academics are best suited to lead big schools.

I probably don't need to remind anyone here that Dealbook just hosted Elon Musk immediately after his public embrace of antisemitism

schools should be run LIKE A BUSINESS

oh wait

Coming from business doesn’t guarantee success either: Simon Newman, a former financier, resigned as president of a Maryland college after reportedly comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot.

Had to look into this more.

The Mount St. Mary’s campus has been in turmoil since word leaked in January through The Mountain Echo, the student newspaper, that Newman had compared struggling students to bunnies that need to be drowned or killed with a Glock. The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.

Newman had proposed to use a survey -- on which freshmen would be told there were no wrong answers -- to identify those at risk of dropping out and to encourage them to do so in the first weeks of the semester. The idea was to raise the university’s retention rate, since those who leave very early in the semester don’t count in the total enrollment figures. Many professors and some administrators protested the plan, saying that the university has an obligation to try to educate those it admits.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/01/president-quits-mount-st-marys

Like, even without the metaphor, this is deranged.

this is how colleges see their students

Taylor Swift should run universities, of course

The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.

Bret Stephens

Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard

well yeah

jfc lol

Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me

Charles M. Blow
The Persecution of President Gay

Ross Douthat
Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself

Letters From Our Readers
The Fallout From a Resignation at Harvard

This story is so far along the discourse/outrage cycle that I really can’t figure out what exactly happened besides “Chris Rufo”

Lol congrats to the NYT, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic for getting played like a fucking fiddle by this leering dipshit, great job guys pic.twitter.com/3CCJViryiE

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) January 4, 2024

for all its baseline biases and blind spots i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard - they see themselves as the flagship paper of record of the country and the western world, and harvard as the analogous educational institution. so it's all but irresistible for them to slobber all over it when shit goes down there. doesn't make it any better

As O said in the other thread, Rufo is a self-promoter and fraud, Gay is out only because billionaire donors (people with actual money) didn’t like her.

they've lost their fucking minds:

Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit

Charles Seife
The Problems Only Start With Plagiarism

(the Cottom piece is probably fine, but it's for their own good that we don't click on these things)

Cottom's essay is good

i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard

the more petty reason is many of the writers and editors either went to harvard/yale/princeton, wanted to go there and were turned down, and/or know a bunch of dicks that went there.

I thought you guys would be talking about this one

Every declining empire for some reason ends up being like just one more invasion of Afghanistan bro I promise bro just one more is all I need pic.twitter.com/nMftzLkXg0

— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) January 4, 2024

I chuckled at the recent headline "Trump Cacophony Hits Differently This Time," imagining a copy editor fastidiously adding the "-ly."

Abolish Harvard, make everyone happy.

lol

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=claudine+gay

16 entries in the last three days

a 2016 vox article just after jack chick's passing sez:

Chick’s obituary in the New York Times noted that “some people called Mr. Chick the Thomas Pynchon of evangelism"

please die Pamela Paul

I hate the conservatives in the Op-Ed section, but I reserve special ire for Bret Stephens and Pamela Paul. I hope they both get hit by cars.

surprised but not surprised to find out they were once married

Stephens is the literal worst. Still LOL at his post-2018 midterm article that he wrote prematurely the day after, saying the results proved Democrats needed to reach across the aisle to the disappointing results, then as the number of House flips started skyrocketing, he just changed the number in his article but left everything else intact, and continued to defend his take on Twitter

*due to

https://i.imgur.com/JrtcXTf.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Y8vcfkJ.jpeg

(the report PP linked to was retracted)

and she referenced "multiple reports" and they're all referencing the same redacted study

I am guilty of occasionally hate-reading PP but I can't bring myself to click on this one

I got one paragraph in, saw there was no way to comment and absolutely slam the premise of the article, closed the tab.

yeah I refuse to read the Paul. Regrettably, I did read that disgustingly fawning Coleman Hughes profile though, and that was supposedly news!

she gets paid more than i will ever get paid to be a hateful piece of shit and stumble through life in public. really cool newspaper

Kellyanne Conway

Who Should Be Trump’s No. 2?

what can you say but lol

The award for Foreign Reporting goes to the staff of The New York Times for unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas

— George Polk Awards (@PolkAwards) February 19, 2024

https://i.imgur.com/cA15Lzb.jpeg

instant classic

astounding

journalism is when you refuse to talk to other people

Friedman would have just invented an intelligent taxi driver who disagreed and faked it from there.

that one broke me. I can't imagine actually turning something like that in

Friedman is just talking to self driving cars these days

https://i.imgur.com/DjY0mw1.jpeg

oh lord please spare us