Thread by @bernybelvedere

I understand that everyone has already dunked on this, but I am still trying to wrap my head around a Covid reporter for the NYT actually thinking this and then tweeting it out. It seems like it shouldn’t be possible to be this professionally incurious.

“Is that code beyond just calling me a clown?”

😂😂😂😂😂

Oof

I feel like I need to tweet an obligatory defense of the NYT since so many people use occasions like this to draw unwarranted conclusions about the publication. The paper has generally covered Covid exceptionally well.

People who say things like this tip their hand that they don’t actually do the reading. They don’t actually read journalism; they just talk about it. In the past year alone, I must have read over one hundred fantastic Covid write-ups from non-McNeil writers at the NYT.

https://twitter.com/BGBandita/status/1397909655444242433