no way NYT

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(the report PP linked to was retracted)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

that byline and bio pic next to that column title, perfect. nyt pitchbot done for the day.

Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Da_Next_Level.jpg

Don't ever Douthat?

just seeing that douthat screengrab, excellent stuff

A.I. Is Spying on the Food We Throw Away

Artificial intelligence is trying to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.

apparently the most popular article in today’s nyt is a… saturday night live…. recap??

wth she has like five posts and gets a glowing nyt article??? who dere daddy!!??? i should put up like two posts of old shoes on the side of the road and maybe they put me on coverrrr!!

#nottryingveryhard

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/style/boy-room-rachel-coster-nyc.html

https://www.instagram.com/boyroomshow/

out of curiosity, I did look up her parents, and they appear to be normal folks living in maine.

Nepo Normie

https://www.instagram.com/expiredmilkcomedy/reel/C3-n2dQAqvn/

I knew it! #calleditagain

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

Wow you ain't kidding

are we gonna poll the polycule

I'm sorry, 20 people isn't a polycule or any sort of personal relationship network. That's a cult, a yoga studio, or a dorm room floor. They're not doing anything that someone needs to write an article about unless they all do something really kooky or violent to someone outside their circle

The editorial urge to table-set actual human behavior at this point is getting fascinating to behold

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

I said elsewhere that "I'm happy for you, now shut up" should be a socially acceptable thing to say to people like this.