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Kirk Rudell
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This is what I’m talking about, Matt. Take a deep breath. Think. Then write something useful.
This “there’s two stories so how will anyone be won over?” pose is so...impotent. You know how people will be won over? When journalists call a lie a lie; when both “stories” aren’t given the same oxygen. Otherwise you’re just fanning propaganda from your keyboard.
And now you’re complaining that people aren’t working hard enough to win you over. Again - impotent. If the behavior of the @GOP hasn’t already motivated you to fight for the stated values of this country then you don’t get your hand held now.
“Be a better citizen” means stop making a joke out of being on the sidelines. You’re not going to get everything you want from a Democrat. Your taxes – gasp! – might pay for women’s reproductive rights. Tough. This election isn’t to be President of Matt.
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This is where the #WGA (of which I am a proud and long-time member) gets silly. I know a lot of people who signed the letter from Nagy/Mazin/et. al. I haven’t decided yet which slate I will support because I also do not understand where the daylight is between them.
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.@maggieNYT This is such a disingenuous, performatively self-pitying stance to take. Of COURSE you dictate what people should care about. You’re still the nation’s premier newspaper, and column inches are limited. You choose what stories get oxygen, and how they’re framed.
Last July, when you wrote that Jared and Ivanka were “ready to make a more visible push for their projects,” were you reporting real news? Or were you dictating what people should care about? (In that case, an image-repairing narrative for two sources?) nytimes.com/2018/07/28/us/…
Judith Miller and the @nytimes helped legitimize the narrative of Iraq’s WMDs. You and your colleagues did the same with the Clinton email server, elevating that story in the national conversation. What news was buried in back pages, or killed outright, to make room?
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My “virtual polygraph” lives in Canada. You can’t meet it, but it’s totally real and I fuck it all the time.
There are really nice, smart, polite people who follow me and I feel like they’re going to question that now.
The rest of you are, obviously, trash.
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