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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.
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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
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This was all planned before the debate, which seems important
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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
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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
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Torn because I find this very unconvincing, but at the same time, it is the signature move of NYT and no one deserves to endure it more than them
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they had pieces by like 80% of their main contributors ready to go the next day. would be shocked if there weren’t prewrites
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there’s nothing wrong with pre-writes to be clear
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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.
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It's also extremely routine, no more surprising than the guy who was President Obama's gaff machine being inarticulate in public
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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.
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(Not in evidence: Any indication that was in the pre-write)
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Did you mean to write that in response to a video about Biden sneezing?
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there's discourse about the ethics of pre-writing articles further up. still connects, I think. darn bsky interface.