It's so wild that the NY Times is treated as the most serious paper of record in the country and it's run like the royal family, with weird little fuck-up princes pretending to do real people work for a bit before sliding into their hereditary leadership jobs

Hey now, Maggie Haberman didn't get where she is today through nepotism, she got there through the nepotism of her college friends and some typing. Oh yeah and her mom doing PR for half the people on her beat.

That’s all legacy media. They’re still collectively jerking themselves off to the one or two instances of good journalism they did decades ago.

The Imperial News will inexorably usher in the Imperial Presidency. ☹️

You just have to believe it's 1996 and then the NY Times magically becomes fairly respectable, actually.

Brooks or Douthat subtweet and properly so. Maybe Dowd.

It lost the privilege of being considered a paper of record at least a decade ago. It’s a sad loss but it is gone gone gone.

It’s 2024 and they have a new op-ed today saying that prosecuting Trump for crimes might be bad because he’ll get pity votes. Pamela Paul still gets paid 6 figures to write nonsense that only conservative think tanks seem to read. And yet Jamelle Bouie still works there and they still do journalism.

AJ is pretty much real-life Succession main character.

One of the Sulzbergers back in the 20s or 30s was pals with Alister Crowley.

sad case... and if they slip up by accidentally publishing something informative, it ends up behind a paywall.