OUT: BAGHDAD BOB. In: Baghdad NYT. “A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.” “The Persian Army has more power and it disappeared in a sandstorm west of Thebes 2,551 years ago.”

Plus: “Why would NYT run something awful like that? Because the NYT strives to be awful. Robert Stacy McCain wrote about the New York Times Journalism Institute, Class of 2018, that NYT travel writer Victoria Leandra called the future of journalism.”