As someone who covers manufactured outrage campaigns for a living, journalists desperately need to learn how to properly cover these campaigns.
These grafs in NYT don’t give nearly enough context to who Chris Rufo is, or his agenda/track record. Quoting ppl like Rufo as neutral/honest actors is a huge mistake not only bc it launders their abusive, ideologically driven campaigns to mainstream liberals, but also bc it leaves readers less informed abt the motivations behind these attacks.
@taylorlorenz I always say Gamer Gate was the first dog whistle. The first head on a hydra. It's been over a decade, and the same strategy of machine gun firing insincere grievances at the weakpoint of "fair and balanced" coverage to create welcome mats for the trojan horses of bigotry is still paying dividends.
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The way they introduce Musk as Tesla boss (a company that still has an okay-ish reputation even though it shouldn't) and not as Twitter-newly-known-as-X boss says a lot and I think the way they don't introduce Rufo is not a bug, but a feature.
I have parted ways with the New York Times, quite some time ago.
People should go read the Dan Froomkin @froomkin story about Sulzberger's recent speech, where he basically says that their policy is "trigger the libs, but call it 'Independent journalism'".
@taylorlorenz presumably his affiliation is obscured because it would be awkward to mention that he is the chief political assignment editor at the NYT, since they don’t pay him
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