#nyt
NYT Pitchbot (now on Bluesky not Twitter so yay) has been on a roll today! Plus one actual NYT headline which shows it's hard to out satirize the totally shiteous and useless NYT. #msm #uspoli #nyt #NYTPitchBot
You press something wrong and suddenly it's all gone 😱
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-times-openai-erased-potential-lawsuit-evidence/
#ai #technology #news #openai #Copyright #nyt #court #law #fail #problem
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage
Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.
https://www.cjr.org/the_trump_reader/trump-threatens-new-york-times-penguin-random-house-critical-coverage.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Loser:_How_Donald_Trump_Squandered_His_Father%27s_Fortune_and_Created_The_Illusion_of_Success
The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner.
#trump #lawsuit #freedom-of-the-press #threat #loser #failure #peter-baker #michael-s-schmidt #susanne-craig #russ-buttner #nyt #new-york-times #penguin-random-house #cbs-news #washington-post #daily-beast
For any of you who dropped the #NYT or #WaPo or any other corporate backed #news .
2 Papers of note you may want to #subscribe to and help them out, run as #non-profit .
#Tampa bay times, owned by Poynter University School of #journalism
#Philadelphia Inquirer self-owned public good non-profit
Been meaning to buy a newspaper subscription, and signed up for my local Philly paper. finally. Never paid for a newspaper before
For the last 18 months or so, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been engaging in a process of rapprochement. The two signed a Beijing-brokered roadmap to de-escalation in early 2023. The Kingdom reopened its embassy in #Tehran in autumn 2023. Since then, a series of symbolic steps, including state visits and the opening of consular services, have taken place. Not that you'd know from reading the prestige press in the UK and US. The #FT, #Bloomberg, the #WSJ, the #WaPo and the #NYT hardly report on this story. So, yesterday, Saudi Arabia and Iran conducted joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman. Given the situation in the Middle East, this would seem important. Who's reporting on it? Let's look at #Google News.
#Iran #KSA #PersianGulf #Media #Censorship #Politics #China #WestAaia
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age
As a licensed psychologist, I am writing to express deep concern about the repeated instances of unusual speech patterns, childish insults and lies demonstrated by Donald Trump. While some have always brushed these speech behaviors off, I believe they warrant a more serious examination for potential signs of cognitive impairment, particularly since, as you pointed out, they are worsening.
Parapraxis, or speech errors, is common in typical adult communication. We’ve all experienced a “slip of the tongue.” However, the frequency, consistency and nature of Mr. Trump’s errors are outside the norm.
His patterns of derailment (switching from one topic or thought to another without a logical connection), circumlocutions (struggling to find the right word and using descriptions instead) and phonemic errors (sounding out words) suggest more than just a careless speaking style. His use of words like moron and other youth-like insults also indicates a possible impairment.
Research has long established that communication changes can be an early indicator of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. It is essential for a physician to provide a detailed assessment of Mr. Trump’s cognitive health beyond just stating that his physical health is excellent.
We deserve transparency about the fitness of those seeking the highest office. I urge the full release of his medical records, including cognitive and neurological evaluations, and for Congress to establish more stringent fitness for duty assessments for presidential candidates.
Michael J. #Salamon, Hewlett, N.Y.
accompanying article with short video samples: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html
#NYT #trump #parapraxis #mental decline
If NYT wasn't propaganda front of IDF in US.
I bet the headline would have been very very different if an American was killed by Iranian police during peaceful protests.
But hey, I'm just an Israeli hater who have no western values and should go back where I came from (that is exactly what a swedish guy told me when I pointed out hypocrisy of Swedish media covering the murder of American peace activist in Occupied west bank).
#WestBank #Media #NYT #Hypocrisy #IDF #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics @palestine group @israel group
If NYT wasn't propaganda front of IDF in US.
I bet the headline would have been very very different if an American was killed by Iranian police during peaceful protests.
But hey, I'm just an Israeli hater who have no western values and should go back where I came from (that is exactly what a swedish guy told me when I pointed out hypocrisy of Swedish media covering the murder of American peace activist in Occupied west bank).
#WestBank #Media #NYT #Hypocrisy #IDF #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Demean Trump Voters
Some of the best advice Democrats have received recently came from Bill Clinton in his speech at the Democratic National Convention.
First, he warned against hubris: “We’ve seen more than one election slip away from us when we thought it couldn’t happen, when people got distracted by phony issues or overconfident.” That’s something that any Clinton understands in his — or her — gut.
Second, related and even more important, he cautioned against demeaning voters who don’t share liberal values.
“I urge you to meet people where they are,” said Clinton, who knows something about winning votes outside of solid blue states. “I urge you not to demean them, but not to pretend you don’t disagree with them if you do. Treat them with respect — just the way you’d like them to treat you.”
That’s critical counsel because too often since 2016, the liberal impulse has been to demonize anyone at all sympathetic to Donald Trump as a racist and bigot. This has been politically foolish, for it’s difficult to win votes from people you’re disparaging.
It has also seemed to me morally offensive, particularly when well-educated and successful elites are scorning disadvantaged, working-class Americans who have been left behind economically and socially and in many cases are dying young. They deserve empathy, not insults.
By all means denounce Trump, but don’t stereotype and belittle the nearly half of Americans who have sided with him.
Since I live in a rural area, many of my old friends are Trump supporters. One, a good and generous woman, backs Trump because she feels betrayed by the Democratic and Republican political establishments, and she has a point. When factories closed and good union jobs left the area, she ended up homeless and addicted; four members of her extended family killed themselves and she once put a gun to her own head. So when a demagogue like Trump speaks to her pain and promises to bring factories back, of course her heart leaps.
Then her resolve strengthens when she hears liberals mock her faith — it was an evangelical church that helped her overcome homelessness — or deride her as “deplorable.”
Then there’s the woman who cut my hair: She had a daughter who was overcome with addiction, so she quit the shop to care for a grandson. Her successor cutting my hair lost her husband to an overdose and is struggling to help a son who is addicted. She isn’t much interested in politics and didn’t watch any of the Democratic convention; she said she distrusts Trump and sees him as a bully, but she is mad at Democrats because food prices are too high.
“I’m not sure how I’ll vote,” she told me, “or if I’ll vote.” She’s a good, hardworking person who would benefit from a Democratic victory, and Democrats should fight for her — not savage her for political thought crimes.
Working-class Americans have a right to feel betrayed. After almost 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks, we started two wars and allocated trillions of dollars to the response. But every three or four days we lose as many Americans to drugs, alcohol and suicide as died in the Sept. 11 attacks, yet the national response has been pathetically weak. The social fabric in many blue-collar communities has unraveled, and people are angry and frustrated.
Since the Obama presidency, Democrats have increasingly become the party of the educated, and the upshot has often been a whiff of condescension toward working-class voters, especially toward voters of faith. And in a country where 74 percent of Americans report a belief in God, according to Gallup, and only 38 percent over the age of 25 have a four-year college degree, condescension is a losing strategy.
Michael Sandel, the eminent Harvard philosopher, condemns the scorn for people with less education as “the last acceptable prejudice” in America. He’s right: Elites sometimes indulge in open disdain for working-class voters that they would never acknowledge about other groups.
I worry about Democrats neglecting their proud heritage since at least the time of Franklin Roosevelt of standing up for working-class Americans. Maybe it’s time for more educated liberals to reread F.D.R.’s famous “Forgotten Man” speech of 1932, hailing “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
We liberals today are attuned to identity and thus to racial and gender disadvantages, while often seemingly oblivious to class disadvantage — even though recent research by the Harvard economist Raj Chetty underscores that race is playing a smaller role in opportunity gaps while class gaps are yawning wider.
You can’t have a serious conversation about inequality today without discussing race. But you also can’t have a serious conversation about poverty or opportunity without considering class (and for many people of color, race and class disadvantages overlap).
Kamala Harris seems to get this. She chose as her running mate a man who can reach working-class voters with his words as well as his policies. And she can present herself as the candidate who worked at McDonald’s while her opponent was exploiting his inheritance — and renters.
I wasn’t planning to write this column, but then I approvingly tweeted Clinton’s comment about not demeaning those we disagree with. Plenty of readers replied hotly: But they deserve to be demeaned!
Sure, it’s satisfying to hurl invective. But calling people “Nazis” probably won’t win over undecided voters any more than when Trump supporters deride “libtards” or the “Biden crime family.”
Whatever our politics, Trump brings out the worst in all of us. He nurtures hate on his side that we mirror.
So let’s take a deep breath, summon F.D.R.’s empathy for the forgotten man, follow Clinton’s advice — and, for the sake of winning elections as well as of civility, remember that the best way to get others to listen to us is to first listen to them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opinion/trump-voters-liberal-civil.html
#trump #voters #NYT by #NicholasKristof
Short and precise critique of the Gray Lady
https://dangillmor.com/2024/07/01/journalists-ordering-biden-to-quit-the-race-really/
#NYT #Biden #candidate #debate
Journalists ordering Biden to quit the race — really?
WTAF: ‘Wrong Sort of Holocaust Survivor’:
“According to the #Guardian, #Independent and #NYT, #Holocaust #Survivors Who Condemn Israel’s Genocide Are The ‘Wrong Sort of Holocaust Survivor’: Interviews with Stephen Kapos, Suzanne Weiss and Rene Lichtman - all Child Survivors of the Holocaust in France and Hungary”
by veteran UK #Socialist, #AntiZionist and #AntiRacist campaigner and author Tony #Greenstein in his 24/06/24 blogpost
PS I can't find the reference anywhere using duckducgo but found this article having that phrase: https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/labour-silencing-holocaust-survivors-and-descendants-of-holocaust-survivors/
#Gaza #Palestine #Resistance #ExterminationCamp #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #US #ICJ #ICC #GenocideJoe #Netanyahu #DahiyaDoctrine #HannibalDirective #IDF #SnuffMovies #Zionism #Racism #Pogrom #Nakba #Genocide #FinalSolution #SettlerColonialism #Liberation #LiberationWar #Dehumanization #Hamas #TerroristIsrael #EthnicCleansing #ChildMurder #ChildTorture #Starvation #Disease #Hasbara #Disinformation #InfoWar #CollectivePunishment #TheOccupiedTerritories #WarCrimes #GroundInvasion #BabyMurderers #HospitalDestroyers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #StateSanctionedMurder #OperationAlAqsaFlood #FreePalestine #PermanentCeasefireNoW #GenocideJoe #USComplicity #UKComplicity #EUComplicity
PSS: image from archives
The #NYT says that " #Biden is closing in on what could prove to be one of his most consequential decisions in the #Ukraine war: whether to reverse his ban on firing U.S. weapons into Russian territory."
The White House has begun a formal and apparently rapid reassessment of whether it should take such a risk, this outlet says.
#Blinken in fact said Washington can "adapt and adjust" its stance on attacking inside #Russia with American #weapons, based on changing battlefield conditions.
"We are always making determinations about what is necessary to ensure that Ukraine can continue to defend itself effectively," Blinken said.
New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.
He wrote in a column:
- “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
- “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
- “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
- “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
- “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”
#Politics #Fascism #StudentRevolt #Israel #US #Genocide #Capitalism #NYT
The New York Times instructs its journalists not to use the term "Palestine" and not to refer to Hamas as "fighters" but only as "terrorists" because they targeted civilians.
I have never seen this language policy applied to describe violent illegal settlers in West Bank. The #NYT simply refers to them as "settlers."
I guess those who control the media, control the world.
#Media #Propaganda #Israel #JewishISIS #Hypocrisy
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Uma reportagem do New York Times, #NYT, confirmou que o seu relatório, que afirmava que os combatentes da resistência do #Hamas tinham agredido sexualmente mulheres israelitas, era falso... -
https://pic.twitter.com/u2a9xH0dUm -
RT @GeopolPt [26/03/24] - #Massacre - 🇮🇱 #Israel - 🇵🇸 #Palestina -
two more shit polls from The New York Times — what the fuck are they doing?
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/two-more-shit-polls-from-the-new
#TrumpisaLoser #MAGA #GOP #GQP #Republicans #Elections #NYT #Poll
