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Don Moynihan
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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: donmoynihan.substack.com
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Been thinking about the Claudine Gay coverage as a keystone to Biden coverage : it was an editorial campaign driven by story after story. It takes enormous editorial hubris to be certain they are right (they were wrong about Gay). What I wrote then: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...

Gay was permanently damaged as a leader. What happens when the most powerful media outlets in the world, ask, day in and day out, if you should be removed from your job? At some point key stakeholders, even supportive ones, start asking the same question. You have become a distraction. Time to move on for the good of the institution. We need a less contentious leader. The controversy becomes sufficient reason for the leader to go, even if the underlying causes are trivial.
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MLelkmovie.bsky.social

Gay didn’t actually do anything wrong, though; Biden’s debate performance would be equivalent to her going out and giving a plagiarized speech after months of plagiarism accusations.

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Ryoufoundryan.bsky.social

gamergate : qanon :: gay : biden

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TStomscocca.bsky.social

The trans care stuff too—they act as if they have no idea that the proportions of coverage convey meaning

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CPcrs1.bsky.social

this still feels like an asymmetrical issue but just in case David Brooks & Brett Stephens have grown too dumb and predictable to publish; they must go and be replaced by any sentient or near sentient luncheon meat

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NFnoahafrank.bsky.social

Yep

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IHirahyman.bsky.social

So many people have gotten the ‘but her emails’ treatment from the Times.

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