NYT covers Biden supporters as cultish super fans, making a false equivalence between them & Trump supporters. Here is the comments section— thousands schooling the paper on how to report governing achievement instead of treating the presidency as a horse race: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/u...

I really wish the main narrative from 2020 had been "Incumbent made very bad governing / campaigning choices that resulted in widespread death and chaos and caused his electoral defeat" instead of "He shot half a million people on Fifth Avenue and only barely lost(?) and his people still love him."

Mswirlyball.bsky.socialMar 3, 2024 4:03am

This would have been enough on its own not too long ago to kill someone’s campaign. Fuck all of this.

The behavior of the NYT in this cycle is very easy to understand, once we realize that the lesson they took from 2016 was that the Clinton email coverage was right and good, and that the main problem was insufficient attention and deference to the preferences of Trump voters.

JPjeffjarvis.bsky.socialMar 3, 2024 11:32am

The fucking Times. It follows up yesterday's awful poll with another. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias--the agenda--in their poll. Who made age an "issue"? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing's projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.

It’s going to be absolutely bonkers when Biden wins again and Trump uses the months of badly projecting Times/Sienna polls to claim the election we stolen: this stuff writes itself.

If you grew up in India in the 80s and 90s, Pankaj Udhas and his melodies were an essential part of your childhood even in the far reaches of the country like Madras. You could not help be moved by his music. RIP.

TNnytimes.comFeb 27, 2024 5:05pm

Pankaj Udhas, a singer whose soulful renditions of ghazals, or lyric love songs, moved generations of people in India and the Indian diaspora, died on Monday at age 72. His songs were a cornerstone of many Bollywood films over his decades-long career. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/w...

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