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September 24, 2019
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FAST TIMES AT SULZBERGER HIGH: Newly-Hired NYT Reporter Accused Of Fabricating Accusation Against Another Reporter.
A newly-hired New York Times writer is being accused of fabricating an accusation against another reporter in a Tuesday Twitter squabble.
NYT reporter Taylor Lorenz hit back on her colleague Zeynep Tufekci, an op-ed writer, on Twitter Tuesday, writing that Tufekci called her “unqualified to report on the attention economy” two years ago, according to Jon Levine, a New York Post reporter. Levine took a picture of the now-deleted tweet and noted that Lorenz was “taking aim” at a co-worker “in her first month on the job at NYT.”
Lorenz, a Culture of Tech reporter, replied to Levine in another deleted tweet and claimed she wasn’t “taking aim,” adding that Levine should “stop reaching.” Levine took a photo of this tweet as well, according to his Twitter page. Following the confrontation, Lorenz blocked Levine on Twitter, screenshots indicate.
Shortly after, Levine was allegedly un-blocked and Lorenz accused him of faking the photo.
And that’s on top of this item from Sunday: Exclusive — Another New York Times Editor Made Racist, Anti-Semitic Comments.
John Nolte of Big Journalism is going to need a bigger blog to keep count: The New York Times’ Disastrous Summer of Fake News and Public Meltdowns.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Will Boris Johnson Play Hard Ball with the UK Supreme Court?
TRUMP: ‘IF YOU IMPEACH ME NOW, I SHALL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.’
Note to Snopes: This is the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire — or is it?
MAKE CAMPUS GREAT AGAIN: Trump mobilizes college voters with free pizza, swag.
IMPEACHMENT: Less Than Meets the Eye.
It’s only been an hour, but already this impeachment process looks less like an actual congressional inquiry, and more like a sop to the growing Crazy Wing of Pelosi’s caucus.
BUT VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME: Democrat Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms.
OLD AND BUSTED: “We Built This City On Rock & Roll.”
The New Hotness? Using rocks to fight the feral homeless: San Fransisco residents buy boulders, place them on sidewalk to thwart homeless tents.
The 21st century is not working out as I had expected, to coin an Instaphrase.
BREAKING NEWS FROM 2006: The rise of the hippie conservatives.
That was the theme of Rod Dreher’s 2006 book, Crunchy Cons, as the author notes 10 paragraphs into his article. In its original hardcover edition, its subhead was “How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party):
We’ve heard this echo before. Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Cons first drew attention to the symmetry between the hippie Left and religious Right way back in 2006; more recent writers such as Matthew Crawford have charted a middle course between these two poles, offering an existential critique of Liberalism that avoids the off-putting vocabulary of either side; even Roger Scruton, by no means a market fundamentalist and author of a book on “Conservatism and the Environment,” comes close to striking this note.
Take Sir Roger’s campaign for a return of beauty in architecture – what is it but a genteel version of hippie conservatism? In an essay published in the Times this weekend, Scruton called for a return to community-led building practises and local architectural materials that reflect “the indigenous life and landscape where they are deployed”. Compare the Climate Strike manifesto, which calls for “non-corporate, community-led climate solutions that recognize the traditional knowledge, practices, wisdom, and resilience of indigenous peoples and local communities”. Hippie Conservatives.
Actually, with their “obligatory diet of uncooked mush in garlic,” their obsession with “green building,” their desire to “Start From Zero,” and their socialist and Communist leanings, the Bauhaus, who created the now ossified 1920s-era architectural styles that Scruton seeks to replace, were far more like ‘60s hippies, than the courtly 75-year old.
BREXIT: The Court vs. the Queen.
Britain’s Supreme Court began its judgment recalling Parliament by claiming it wasn’t about Brexit. The question, said the court president, Baroness Hale, was just about whether Prime Minister Johnson’s request to Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was lawful. Not, the judge averred, “about when and on what terms the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union.”
That strikes us as unconvincing. It’s like saying — to pick a similar absurdity — that our Civil War was merely about states rights and had nothing to do with slavery. Of course it was about slavery. And of course the case that just rocked Britain is about leaving the European Union. If Baroness Hale believes otherwise, she might like to buy a lovely bridge in Brooklyn.
Of course this is about Brexit. That is why the Remainers of both parties are so jubilant after the decision. It’s why Labor is cheering. And why, as London’s Sun put it, “gloating EU bosses” are reacting to the court’s ruling with “glee.” And why one of Europe’s leading opponents of British independence, Guy Verhofstadt, is calling the ruling “one big relief in the Brexit saga.”
It’s about winning at any cost, the constitution, tradition, and — God forbid — the will of the people be damned.
We’ve spent the last three years or so learning a similar lesson on this side of the pond.
OBSESSED: Legacy TV Networks Mention Impeachment 73 Times in 26 Hours.
No link yet, but Pelosi has reportedly just told House Democrats she’ll move forward with an impeachment inquiry.
REAL CONGRESS PEOPLE OF GENIUS: Witness Says Vaping Helped Her Quit Smoking. Rashida Tlaib (D–Mich.) Asks ‘Are You a Conspiracy Theorist?’
Classical allusion in headline:
ATTACHING A NAIL GUN TO A FLYING DRONE ISN’T REASON ENOUGH? Researchers Found a Good Reason to Attach a Nail Gun to a Flying Drone.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: The Real Reason Critics Hate ‘Rambo: Last Blood.’
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The News Is Very Protective of Teenagers, Unless They’re Wearing MAGA Hats.
They didn’t care about Nick Sandmann, and they don’t care about Greta Thunberg. They don’t care about anybody as an individual. We’re all just pawns to them. If we can’t or won’t do what they demand, they have no use for us.
No wonder they’re always so angry.
And for those print journalists, the newspaper industry is ever-downsizing, and the looming fear of unemployment adds additional fuel to those eco-apocalyptic fantasies.
THE 2020 ANTI-URBAN AGENDA: A Platform of Urban Decline. Democratic presidential candidates believe America is racist, yet they ignore the evidence on crime and ensure that racial disparities persist. Heather Mac Donald discusses the chilling stats that the post-Obama Dems and their apologists in the media refuse to acknowledge.
TITLE IX FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE: With (1) all the Title IX “violations” that were never intended by Congress to be Title IX violations and (2) all the discrimination against men in scholarship and other program eligibility, it’s curious that the one area where women really are discriminated against (admissions) gets no attention. Whatever …
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