Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

They purposely dragged her, then made a multi tweet retraction. ok.

Is it your contention that when people get caught doing bad things and then apologize, that means they didn’t actually intend to do the bad thing?

Yeah, basically.

obviously a totally innocent mistake, politics is complex

you can’t expect the person(s) operating a checks notes a twitter connected to a large organization devoted primarily to reporting on politics to know things that checks notes again they were briefed about well in advance.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/08/18/travelers-miss-flying-so-much-that-theyre-taking-flights-nowhere/

Come on. This is so obviously on purpose. The headline can’t be an unintentional error given all we know.

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This cannot possibly be the title of a piece in the 44th month in the Trump presidency.

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https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1296424691737993216?s=21

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I happened to catch some of the local news yesterday morning and it was literally just ten minutes straight of police hero worship. Some old dude explaining how “We are a nation of LAW and ORDER and we can’t defund the police” followed by them showing like five minutes straight of an officer who had been shot, leaving the hospital. Such a fucked up and weird country.

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Sinclair is a helluva drug

https://twitter.com/mattnegrin/status/1297146260496027649?s=21

WAPO front page

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https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1297764336300109824?s=20

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Oh. That’s all you have to do. Problem solved!

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GTFO, NPR

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1298036138310021121?s=21

Lol some say

Hatch act. Lolololollololololoolol

Imagine writing that headline 4 years in.

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NPR really hasn’t handled the Trump era well at all. Neither has any media org really, but they didn’t have the advertiser pressure to fuck it up and did anyway.