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Berny Belvedere

@bernybelvedere

23 May

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1396166198707081219

News orgs engender trust from readers by projecting their capacity to reliably produce reporting that is accurate and fair. The world is fantastically complex, which means readers want it analyzed, and want to make sure it's being done from an intellectually honest vantage point.

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1396166198707081219

I am generally against news organizations dropping personnel over political tweets, but you have to be completely ignorant of psychology to believe that a reporter publicly telegraphing his politics *isn’t* going to compromise his ability to convey impartiality in his reporting.

<tweets 10 things in a row about Israel being divinely mandated to destroy its enemies and Palestine being an evil people who are completely in the wrong>

<next day>

"Folks, here's my new report trying to make sense of the latest Israel-Palestine dust up."

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Berny Belvedere

@bernybelvedere

22 May

@conor64

Absolutely shambolic thread that slimes @conor64 throughout and fundamentally misunderstands the nature and role of objectivity in opinion writing. Completely embarrassing analysis here.

https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1396078670943510528

Warner tries to argue for the journalistic superiority of what he calls "illumination" (a posture he attributes to Serwer) over "objectivity" (which he says Friedersdorf tries but fails to achieve). But set this distinction, and the notion of "objectivity," aside for a second.

Both Serwer and Friedersdorf are attempting to analyze the episode correctly. If you ask Serwer if he's striving to get an accurate read of the situation, he'd say yes. Same with Friedersdorf. Their pieces are their best attempt at correctly evaluating the episode in question.

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Berny Belvedere

@bernybelvedere

21 May

https://twitter.com/jonschweppe/status/1395760960862838790

Populist chudsworth thinks that if he can differentiate the capitalization of the letters in “January Sixth” the insurrectionist wet dream collectively carried out by Trump supporters on that day will magically be forgotten. It won’t.

https://twitter.com/jonschweppe/status/1395760960862838790

lmao

have you considered the possibility that music is actually a worthwhile thing to be into, my good bitch?

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Berny Belvedere

@bernybelvedere

20 May

@ThePlumLineGS

John Thune said: "Anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 election is a day lost on being able to draw contrast between us and the Democrats' very radical left-wing agenda."

Good @ThePlumLineGS piece on Thune's attempted justification.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

This rationale earlier claimed the career of Liz Cheney and is now the primary driver of the Republican Party's opposition to a January 6 Commission.

The most interesting thing about it is that it's as pure a distillation of the prioritization of in-group partisan priorities over national interests as you are likely to see.

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Berny Belvedere

@bernybelvedere

20 May

There's evidence out of Texas that the governor's lifting of the mask mandate has had no effect on public health outcomes.

Let's assume that's true. I would caution against drawing more generalized conclusions about the efficaciousness of public policy from this particular case.

Sometimes policy meaningfully determines behavior—as when the onerous penalties for smoking causes a decrease in cigarette use over time—but on other occasions it may be that a particular policy is epiphenomenal to social behavior.

In other words, it's possible that people were wearing masks or not wearing masks irrespective of state policy. Which would mean the mandate wasn't doing all that much in *this particular case*.

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