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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / Late Night Open Thread: Good ‘News’, Bad Journamalism

Late Night Open Thread: Good ‘News’, Bad Journamalism

by Anne Laurie|  March 9, 202111:33 pm| 50 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Open Threads, President Biden, Our Failed Media Experiment

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Many thanks to commentor Steeplejack for the link:

One year in quarantine got me like… #MrBiden #BringMyVaccine ???????? pic.twitter.com/QKYaEhhtay

— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) March 9, 2021


I told y’all Annie Linskey had a big future in journamalism, back when the Boston Globe hired her to hate-stalk Elizabeth Warren for challenging Sen. Scott Brown…

do the president’s dogs get secret service protection pic.twitter.com/pRvRFOKxjh

— Gapeway Pundit (@canderaid) March 9, 2021

"Joe Biden campaigned on restoring civility, but early on a 'minor injury' proves to be a 'Major' test for a beleaguered presidency." – A quadruple bylined piece by Seung Min Kim, Annie Linksey, Ben Terris & the ghost of Chris Cillizza. https://t.co/NnmIjKumHf

— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) March 10, 2021

The Washington Post (which is currently paying Linksey) has more self-respect than the NY Post, which is why WaPo fell back on the time-tested ‘some people say… ‘ formulation.

You're from the NY Post, now it makes sense.

— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) March 9, 2021

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  1. 1.

    karen marie

    March 9, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    I’m not sure any of these “journalists” have ever met, much less owned a dog.

    PS:  Oooh, look!  First!  Not last!  Or have I prematurely killed this thread?

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    March 9, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    You know…I’m not sure how serious these people are half the time. I just know they get paid a lot more than me to be this silly. That doesn’t encourage me to let these people exist.​

    EDIT: zweite!!!

  3. 3.

    zeecube

    March 9, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @karen marie: You first.

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    March 10, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Lurve duckies!

    Ending the day on a high note: CA fully vaccinated count nearly matches conformed case count: 3.4M to 3.60M. By next week the fully vaccinated count will be well in the lead and that lead will only grow.

    A year ago one would have never guessed either number to be possible.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2021 at 12:00 am

    That Secret Service guy knows what he did. Also too, Ms Linskey is a dumb fuck at best.

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 10, 2021 at 12:01 am

    @Yutsano: I often think that, but then as in the tweets here, they double down.

    Also, Linskey loses points for the wild-ass apostrophe

    and is there a jurisdiction where a dog would be put own for a bite like this one apparently is? first known aggression, no blood, skin not broken, etc.

  7. 7.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 10, 2021 at 12:10 am

    @karen marie:

    I’m not sure any of these “journalists” have ever met, much less owned a dog.

    I doubt it, after all dogs are good judges of character.

  8. 8.

    BellyCat

    March 10, 2021 at 12:11 am

    I bit a bagel today. No lox were injured though…

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    March 10, 2021 at 12:12 am

    I asked: ‘Can you also reassure the public that Major Biden will not be euthanized as a result of this?’

    He’s “Just asking questions.”. JAQing off, I believe it’s known as.

  10. 10.

    Dopey-o

    March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: and is there a jurisdiction where a dog would be put own for a bite like this one apparently is? first known aggression, no blood, skin not broken, etc.

    Common Law Adage: Every dog gets one free bite. The logic being  “He never bit anyone before, your Honor.”

  11. 11.

    something fabulous

    March 10, 2021 at 12:17 am

    Yay, he’s back! Been wondering how he’d handle no more Former Guy (which I have to say I appreciate also for the sense of, “well, he USED to be a guy…” Just diminish him in every way.

  12. 12.

    something fabulous

    March 10, 2021 at 12:22 am

    @dmsilev: And I am just loving Jen Psaki more each day. Did you see her response? Just the right amount of quietly shocked and disapproving: “Well, Major is of course a member of the Biden family, so no, there is no discussion of euthanization.”

  13. 13.

    moonbat

    March 10, 2021 at 12:25 am

    It’s not just throwing chum in the water and see who bites usual “just asking a question” bullshit. This is malicious. I think these professional ankle biters are seriously pissed they haven’t left a mark on Biden or his unflappable press secretary yet and they are literally looking to draw blood.
    “I know! We’ll create a public furor such that they’ll put their own dog down because it’s the responsible thing to do!”
    Vicious creeps.​

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2021 at 12:30 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Amen. And “The Biden’s will not [. . .]”? [Shudder]​

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    March 10, 2021 at 12:31 am

    @trollhattan: 

    A year ago one would have never guessed either number to be possible.

    ISTR that about a year ago people were starting to worry about how the whole country would get infected and how many people would die if we didn’t shut things down, so the number of infected would have been believable, if pessimistic, a year ago. That we would have an effective vaccine in less than a year- much less three- would have been seen as wildly optimistic.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    March 10, 2021 at 12:32 am

    @karen marie:

    I’m not sure any of these “journalists” have ever met, much less owned a dog.

    Which is kind of surprising; you’d expect at least one of them would have had somebody set their dogs on them by now.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2021 at 12:34 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    “No blood, skin not broken, etc.” I can’t even see this being reported. It’s news only because it’s the White House and the press corps is suffering PT*SD.

    * T = Former Guy.

  18. 18.

    dfh

    March 10, 2021 at 12:37 am

    Great post, Anne.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack

    March 10, 2021 at 12:38 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    Thanks for the h/t!  ?

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    March 10, 2021 at 12:42 am

    @Steeplejack:

    It’s news only because it’s the White House and the press corps is suffering PT*SD.

    I think it’s less about PT*SD than it is about need to justify their existence.  The White House press corpse needs to produce “news” articles regularly or their employers will decide they’re useless and give up on them.  Former Guy was great for them because he always gave them something to write about without them having to go to any effort to find it.  Biden doesn’t do that, so they have to get their articles from somewhere.  They’re too lazy to research and chase down real news, so they’re left asking dumb questions and trying to gin up meaningless controversies.

  21. 21.

    patroclus

    March 10, 2021 at 12:47 am

    I don’t want Major to be put down, but I think we should seriously consider putting Piers Morgan down.

  22. 22.

    sanjeevs

    March 10, 2021 at 12:48 am

    From WSJ

    In recent weeks, according to the people, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has issued new subpoenas and requested recordings of local government meetings related to the Trump Organization’s failed attempt to create a luxury subdivision at Seven Springs, a 213-acre property that the former president bought for $7.5 million in 1995.

    Mr. Trump has valued the property at up to $291 million in financial statements that the New York attorney general’s office, which is also investigating Seven Springs, said were given to financial institutions. Inflating assets to help secure loans or other financial benefits can be a state criminal offense, legal experts said.

  23. 23.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 10, 2021 at 12:50 am

    Ron Klain retweeted this and its killing me. Lol

    lol at the Klain retweet. Official administration policy is to ignore Susan Collins I guess. pic.twitter.com/uuPUFebAF6

    — ☕️ Tynan ? (@TynanPants) March 10, 2021

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 10, 2021 at 12:51 am

    The Washington Post (which is currently paying Linksey)

    Are they hiring?  I could blather stupid shit on Twitter, a day’s work in an hour, and I don’t need an expense account.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    March 10, 2021 at 12:52 am

    @Roger Moore:

    Former Guy was great for them because he always gave them something to write about without them having to go to any effort to find it.

    That’s pretty much what I meant: PTS(eparation)D(isorder). They’re trying to exercise muscles that have completely atrophied in the last four years.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    March 10, 2021 at 1:01 am

    That anyone, anywhere, is spending more than five seconds of their time on this makes me sulky.

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    March 10, 2021 at 1:01 am

    Annie Linskey is one of those journos for whom her job allows her to be a “professional mean girl”.  Never has to justify a bad take, never has to provide any context and is “shielded” from criticism by her profession.

    I automatically discredit anything with her as the author because she’s simply a bad faith actor who will take a kernel of truth and cast it in the light that is the least favorable setting for anyone on the left.

    Just put her on the list with Glenn Greenwald, Mags Haberman, Meagan McArdle, Ken Vogel et al.

    They play for the other side .

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    March 10, 2021 at 1:01 am

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    They’re trying to exercise muscles that have completely atrophied in the last four years.

    Those muscles were never very strong to begin with.  I remember the Obama years, when they spent the same kind of time making mountains out of molehills.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 10, 2021 at 1:02 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Sen. Schumer’s right.

     

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 10, 2021 at 1:03 am

    @patroclus: It’s really the kindest thing.

  31. 31.

    Alison Rose

    March 10, 2021 at 1:14 am

    This is all I could think of.

  32. 32.

    TS (the original)

    March 10, 2021 at 1:24 am

    It wasn’t only Elizabeth Warren that Annie Linskey attacked – it was also Hillary Clinton – over and over. Another one who helped the last guy win in 2016. Every time she posts on WaPo now I add a comment  as to her negative approach to democrats.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    March 10, 2021 at 2:12 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, Dems should make one thing clear in ‘bipartisan’ talks:

    If you negotiate changes to a bill, and then don’t vote for that bill, we will never negotiate with you again and we will explain why from the WH podium. If you know now you won’t vote for it, the door is over there.

  34. 34.

    Martin

    March 10, 2021 at 2:15 am

    Katie Porter explaining the Covid bill on her whiteboard tomorrow.

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    March 10, 2021 at 2:21 am

    @patroclus:

    What did the oven ever do to you?

    I mean I know why you think pm should be put down, and you aren’t in bad company with that thought, but still he is at least 5% human. I’m not agreeing to more than 5% though…..

  36. 36.

    Danielx

    March 10, 2021 at 2:30 am

    “Beleaguered presidency”?

    No shit?

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    March 10, 2021 at 2:32 am

    The Biden administration isn’t leaking like the Former Guy’s, when staffers were either trying to stab each other in the back, or kiss up to the Bloat, or get him to pay attention to something, so these “reporters” can’t just sit on their couches takin phone calls from Kellyanne/Jarvanka, etc.

  38. 38.

    TS (the original)

    March 10, 2021 at 3:28 am

    @patroclus:

    As I read, no doubt on twitter, if the only thing the Megan/Harry interview did was to remove Piers Morgan from TV screens, they have done the world a great service.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    March 10, 2021 at 3:38 am

    @TS (the original):

    You speak much truth.

  40. 40.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    March 10, 2021 at 4:21 am

    @Ruckus: Amen. Whenever I read of Piers Morgan’s antics, I think that he is the rare case where the wise thing to do is follow the example of Jeremy Clarkson. (Except that apparently Clarkson broke his hand in the process, which is why I advocate using a baseball bat instead.)

  41. 41.

    prostratedragon

    March 10, 2021 at 4:49 am

    Le grand tango

  42. 42.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    March 10, 2021 at 5:56 am

    Opinion | I Was a Lifelong Democrat. Then Biden Went 47 Days Without Holding a Solo Press Conference.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) March 9, 2021

    LOL

    Doug is something else.

  43. 43.

    sab

    March 10, 2021 at 5:59 am

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Piers Morgan inherited the Larry King Show that ran for a quarter of a century being midwestern nice. He came in being Murdoch Brit nasty and blew up the franchise in a couple of months. Came to America for the money. Didn’t understand the market. Incompetent!?!?

    Now he hates us because he blew his one shot at us and our money.  So Harry and his very classy lady and child are fair game to that slug.

  44. 44.

    debbie

    March 10, 2021 at 7:18 am

    @piratedan:

    With tweets like this, I’m more interested in the usually very amusing replies.

  45. 45.

    SFAW

    March 10, 2021 at 7:22 am

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    Tony Jay!

    If you’re out there, this is the kind of NYT Pitchbot stuff I was talking about yesterday. My meager attempt was/is a mere shadow of DougJ’s artistry.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    March 10, 2021 at 7:27 am

    @piratedan:

    Linskey’s (or Linskeys) apparent raison d’etre is to (help) bring down a leading Demon-rat. She tried her hardest with Hillary in 2016. [ETA: And, as TS pointed out, Senator Professor Warren last year.] She may have been out of practice, but she’s just getting warmed up for Speedy Joe. Although, in fairness, I don’t think I’ve seen her use the “just asking/saying” device, so fond of the traitorous Rethuglican mofos and their ass-lickers.

  47. 47.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 10, 2021 at 7:30 am

    Piers Morgan is leaving Good Morning, Britain to join the staff of Good Riddance, Cousins!

  48. 48.

    cintibud

    March 10, 2021 at 7:52 am

    RE: Major Biden – This calls for an appearance of Elvira Gulch. I had to look up the name. That is the woman at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz who takes Toto away from Dorothy and rides off on her bike with Toto in a basket. These reporters are her spiritual descendants.

  49. 49.

    karen marie

    March 10, 2021 at 8:39 am

    @BellyCat: That’s a crime when you exclude lox.

  50. 50.

    wizened_guy

    March 10, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    When did ‘Dog Bites Man’ become news?

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