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…
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I invented this! Or I predicted it! Or, well, you know.
Okay, I didn’t “predict” this, or anything else. Or invent it. However, a few months back, I wrote a piece, Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”, making fun of former NYT media obeserver Ben Smith’s post, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars,…
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…
Iron Dome Phonus Balonus: The New York Times hopes its readers are stupid—and damn well wants them to stay that way!
By now you may have heard about the ruckus in the House of Representatives about two weeks ago over funding for the Israeli anti-missile “Iron Dome” program, which eventually passed, after protests from the Democrats’ “progressive” (sometimes) wing disrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to slip $1 billion in funding for the Dome into an…
Reports of the neocons’ demise have been greatly exaggerated
Weren’t the neocons terrible? Well, they still are, and they’re still running things at both Bloomberg and the New York Times, and they still think it’s “smart” to lie to their readers. Eagle-eyed substacker Daniel Larison brings the sad but unsurprising news on both. First the Bloomberg folks have the “great” idea that President Biden…
Joe Biden, last seen sinking deeper into the Blobby bog
Daniel Larison has an excellent—“excellent” as in “deeply depressing”—take on President Biden’s stumbling—“stumbling” as in “clearly and severely wrong-headed”—Iranian “policy”, which is, in fact, so bad that I’ve exhausted a whole week’s supply of quotation marks in one goddamn sentence, which means I’ll have to take out a loan, something I can scarcely afford to…
The New York Times, searching for metaphors in the Suez Canal
In the past few days, the New York Times has run three articles—In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization by Peter S. Goodman, Why the World’s Container Ships Grew So Big by Nirja Chokshi, and The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor by Marc Levinson—all claiming that…
New York Times, Pentagon Shrill and Pentagon Shill
A recent editorial in the Times, The Fighter Jet That’s Too Pricey to Fail The F-35 is a boondoggle. Yet we’re stuck with it., strikes a welcome chord with me, since I just ran a similar piece, The F-35 Flying Turkey, Fiercely Flapping Its Wings, last week. Yet, as the second sentence of the subhead…
Thinking is not prohibited at the New York Times; but it is frowned upon. Strongly. Very strongly.
Actually, I’m cutting the Times, and the screamin’ wokies who make up its staff, an enormous amount of slack because it’s fairer to say that thinking is forbidden at the Times, rather than my kinder, gentler take. Latest victim of the “no think” movement at the Times is Donald McNeil Jr., booted for daring to…
Woke and Broke: The New York Times wants to destroy the city’s public school system
In today’s editorial, “Reopen Schools, and Reform Them”, the pathetically “correct” New York Times argues that “Scrapping the high-stakes admission tests for New York’s specialized public high schools is long overdue. They severely disadvantage talented Black and Latino students.” A more accurate head would be “Reopen schools, and then destroy middle class support for them,”…