This is NYT's standard move. Pick a narrative, find a handful of people who'll stick that narrative in their mouths, write a story pretending your Potemkin movement is the Will of the People. Remember when the Coffee Party was the next big thing?
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This crap is not sympathetic unless you're a believer. A cultural familiarization trainer moves to NH, finds there was no demand for her job, concludes that the right move is to *import a bunch of people who need her services*. This is insane unless she's a missionary. So, well.
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this is how journalism operates now. chose narrative a priori and then cherrypick (or even crowdsource) evidence; write story as if evidence led you to narrative
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It echoes the use of parallel construction by the police agencies, in a weird way. Present a set of facts (more or less) truthfully, lie like a motherfucker about how they got there.
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oh shit that's EXACTLY what it is
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