3. Faux-objectivity & both-sidesism always ran into problems with politics expanded beyond elite quarrels and started to include the broader public (as in the 1960s and in our current age of protests).
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4. One curious feature of the current strife between the newsroom & the opinion section is that both sides are smart enough to realize the age of faux-objectivity & both-sidesism is over. They just have different solutions to the problem.
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5. As
@benyt's excellent article from yesterday made clear, the newsroom solution to faux-objectivity has come from a cohort of mostly African-American reporters battle-hardened at Ferguson who have pushed for an end to old euphemisms and evasions in writing about racism.5 replies 39 retweets 390 likesShow this thread -
6. The newsroom solution is greater bluntness and diversity of experience (i.e. bringing marginalized groups into the writing of stories), then the op ed solution was expansion of political spectrum (good) combined with hot take nihilism (the source of trouble)
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7. I want to be clear here that I'm not a hater. There's much that happened in
@JBennet tenure as opinion editor that I admired (notably bringing on board Jamelle Bouie &@michelleinbklyn). Bennet was smart enough to know the old elite consensus was dead & need to move beyond it3 replies 21 retweets 228 likesShow this thread -
8. As an example of what Bennet's genuinely helpful expansion of the political spectrum inside the Times, it's hard to imagine the pre-Bennet Times running
@Vinncent Vincent Bevins's piece on how the liberal world order is built on bloodpic.twitter.com/CBirUuOrRD
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9. But Bennet has had a harder time expanding with right-wing voices, in part because it is harder to find Trumpists who can write non-batshit stuff (one exception is
@ToryAnarchist, who the Times has been running). So paper settled back to Never Trumpists, mainly.8 replies 18 retweets 174 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @HeerJeet @ToryAnarchist
Yeah, they should have just hired DM straight out. Inform/expose/vehemently rebut.
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Lind would be great. There is another desire at work here: to reach out to conservative readers, by having conservative writers. This conflicts with the reality of what the conservative movement is, which is about white grievances. There's a direct, irresolvable conflict.
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Yep, that's the problem.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @SWGoldman and
Basically, you can do high minded racial/ethnic anxieties—so intellectuals like Caldwell and McCarthy speak for the base. If you *want* writers to speak for the base. Actually, I do. I want to read their vile stuff in one place. I guess I want to read Carl Schmitt in 1932 as well
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