It’s tempting to say “it’s a combination of all three,” but, well, that wouldn’t make any sense. Here’s the deal: Eric Lipton writes in today’s Times Hours after the news broke on Wednesday that the United States had picked up worrisome intelligence about Russia’s capacity to strike American satellites, the Pentagon sent a missile-tracking system…
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Get your misinformation here! Get your red hot misinformation here! Courtesy of the New York Times!
How many times am I going to write this story? Well, damfino, but if the Times won’t quit, neither will I. The latest provocation from the Gray Lady of West 35th St. or wherever the fuck the Times hangs its hat these days is David Quammen’s The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin. Here’s how Dave…
The New York Times, lost in a Metaverse of Misinformation
As all you Gödel guys n’ gals know, Kurt’s “Incompleteness Theorem” states, among other things, that any system of mathematics powerful enough to prove the basic theorems of arithmetic must allow for the existence of theorems that cannot be proven to be either true or false, and is thus necessarily “incomplete”. The so-called “Vanneman corollary”…
How to accessorize a coffee table: Alan Vanneman versus the New York Times
How’s your tablescape? Tim McKeough of the New York Times has some advice, and a video: You see them on Instagram and in design magazines: those perfectly composed coffee tables that tie a living room together and hint at the fabulous taste of the homeowners. How do those tablescapes come together? How does someone decide…
Who’s stoopider, Noah Rothman, the New York Times, or the U.S. Treasury? Tough call!
Damn right it is. Over at the National Review, hot shot author Noah Rothman, whose best-selling book, The Rise of the New Puritans, trashing those damn West Coast hippies grown old and rich and censorious, which, if I read it, I’d probably agree with more often than not, is on a tear, tearing into those…
Yo, New York Times! Want to know who started the War in Iraq? Look in the goddamn mirror!
20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?, rumbles “Interpreter” (that’s what they call him) Max Fisher, subjecting us to a shitload of obscurantist chin-stroking before reaching an all too convenient non-answer/confession of ignorance, topping off this banal exercise in disingenuosity with this laughable quote as a closer: “I will…
California’s high-speed rail project not so hot, the New York Times discovers
This just in! How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails! Yeah, the NYT’s Ralph Vartabedian has the story on California’s long-struggling mega-mega project, a 200 mph bullet train running between San Francisco and LA, aka “the train to nowhere”: America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a…
Shorter Washington Post: We cans so be as stupid as the New York Times!
Hell yes they can! In fact, this recent editorial by the Post, Fairfax school board should appeal ruling on admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, denouncing the pernicious notion that schools for high-performing students should actually be for, you know, high performing students, outwoked the Times famous/infamous “1619 Project”, for, while…
A Cold Snap in Hell: The New York Times Wonders if Government “National Security Experts” Always Tell the Truth!
Satan’s earmuffs, it’s cold! The headline says it all: Why ‘Trust Us’ Is Often Reason Enough Not to Trust the Government. In a stunningly trenchant “news analysis”, Charlie Savage notes that the frenzied resentment that Biden administration spokesfolk like Jen Psaki express towards anyone who doubts their sainted word only makes us doubt them all…
Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”.
NYT Man About the Media Ben Smith has a column up, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer that goes off on quite a bit of a tangent while discussing the first of a series of meetings organized by Harvard University’s Shorenstein…