look man if you’re saying that NYT is coming in with a well-reported piece that will prove Biden is and has been unfit to serve, let’s see it.
but what you linked is not even close to being it.
I do think that NYT editorial has now chosen to go to war with the Biden administration, so if there’s anything NYT reporting has loaded they’re going to drop it. why wouldn’t they
I'm not sure I buy this based on the evidence at hand; just because they pre-wrote *something* in that article doesn't mean they pre-wrote the performance stuff; entirely possible that became the focus and much of the pre-write was scrapped, or only some background was pre-written
kristof’s specifically was published something like 40 minutes after the debate ended, which, at the very least, means he put very little thought into it, he just wrote it in ink without even reviewing it or running it by anyone to challenge assumptions
Someone at the Times should leak all the drafts of this piece so that we can judge what impact, if any, the debate had on the editing process.
The public has a Right to Know whether the newspaper of record is trying to harass a public servant into stepping down prematurely
but I do think it’s a fair hit to say that if you do pre-writes in the alternative in anticipation of several outcomes of a future event, you are not then reacting with specificity to the details of that future event.
Yes, it sure is a scandal that our candidate's poor performance was so thoroughly foreseeable that a journalist could prepare their reaction in advance.
Not exactly what I would call a smoking gun.
Honestly, the politico piece about the feud between the NYT and Biden has made me question the motives of everything the Times has published about the current president. Is that unfair? Maybe. I do think skepticism of elite media choices and framing is warranted, though
