New York Times Narrative: NYT email writer pushing the negative narrative...frequently and openly

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

NYT email writer pushing the negative narrative...frequently and openly

The NYT email story writer, who gets lots of clicks for the NYT and also now more airtime on TV has a vested interest in the email story looking sinister, but tell me how this story pushing is ethical journalism. And if you can put DUN DUN DUN! after every tweet, probably someone is pushing some bullshit.

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Here's a tip for my fellow scribes and opinionators: If you find yourself justifying blanket coverage of an issue because it "plays into a narrative," stop right there. That's a way of saying that you can't come up with an actual, substantive reason this is important or newsworthy, just that it bears some superficial but probably meaningless similarity to something that happened at some point in the past.

"Narratives," furthermore, aren't delivered from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets. They're created and maintained by journalists making decisions about what's important and how different issues should be understood. If you're going to tell us that a new issue "plays into a narrative," you ought to be able to say why there's something essentially true or significant about that narrative.

-Paul Waldman, The Week, regarding Hillary Clinton media coverage

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

NYT email writer pushing the negative narrative...frequently and openly

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