Taibbi: The News Media Is Destroying Itself

Link?

 

No links to hypotheticals, sorry.

But the point/counterpoint approach to editorials is pretty well and widely known.

 

So the op-ed section hadn't run any piece in support of the protests/rallies before or after that op-ed?

How would Cotton's opinion, as an example, not have been a threat had it run beside an opposing editorial?

The problem, to me was two-fold:

1. Cotton had a bad opinion. (It really was.)
2. He had a bad opinion that was also Trumpian/ultra-conservative in nature.

There are lots of bad progressive opinions. They're just not going to get anyone to resign from the Times.

 

You can't just assume that the specific counter-opinion is out there floating in the ether somewhere.

ie, what's the rhetorical opposite of sending in the army?

And the piece was a bad one. You're right.

But there are lots of bad opinions on the opinion page. Including bad pieces from NYT house conservatives.

Bennet had to resign once he admitted he hadn't read it before running it.

 

Not sending in the army? Defending the protests as peaceful?

I think the beef comes down to it being a bad opinion and the wrong political opinion. Which is fine. The NY Times does what it did, and so it goes.

But a guy resigned because of a newsroom revolt over it. The implications there are the newsroom has the power to veto any opinion it doesn't like. I'd extrapolate that out to: The newsroom can also call for any opinion it wants, lest it revolt or anonymously leak concerns to another media outlet, or an email, or a text, or an audio recording? The precedent has, in essence, been set.

 

Disagree.

But that's OK.

 

"Anyone who defies the narrative will be silenced." -- Tucker Carlson last night

 

srsly?

 

And yet Tucker keeps prattling on and on and on.

 

Some of his recent segments have been pretty good like last night's.

 

Thoughtful thread here in answer to the Lowery piece.

 

You disagree that the NYT newsroom has been empowered to veto or call for any opinion it pleases? Seems pretty clear to me.