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    David Roberts‏ @drvolts 5 Sep 2020

    This story by @AP's @sppeoples defies belief. I have read these opening paragraphs probably a dozen times. I can't stop reading them. There's no way to describe it but performance art. https://apnews.com/780b2edfd25af18c0107ee382356194f …pic.twitter.com/aoGL2b6PZb

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      2. David Roberts‏ @drvolts 5 Sep 2020

        "Here are two diametrically opposed descriptions of reality." You have to get to paragraph *12* before the piece states some actual facts, & even then it never clearly ties those facts to the lies in the opening paragraph. It never clearly takes a side between the two realities.

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      3. David Roberts‏ @drvolts 5 Sep 2020

        The right way to start paragraph 3 would have been: "Donald Trump is wrong. The pandemic is as bad as ever, the economy is in worse shape than its been in a half-century, & America's suburbs are fine. Trump is spinning a web of lies while Biden is accurately describing reality."

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      4. David Roberts‏ @drvolts 5 Sep 2020

        Conventional mainstream journalism so often reads as though it is *consciously designed* to be useless.

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      5. David Roberts‏ @drvolts 5 Sep 2020

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        Speaking of which, let's add this, from the pinnacle of uselessness, Chris Cillizza. A close analysis of whether a man who lies about literally everything, who has lied tens of thousands of times, who lies like breathing, is lying. Who can know? 🤔https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1302308518494703621 …

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        We're left with this dilemma: Jeffrey Goldberg, who authored The Atlantic piece insists the story is true. President Trump insists the story is false. Both of those views can't be right, writes Chris Cillizza https://cnn.it/32WrLjw 
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      2. RAGEPATH‏ @ragepath 5 Sep 2020
        Replying to @drvolts @drvox and

        "A sliver of truth" that there's an unchecked pandemic raging, unemployment is at record highs, and there have been repeated social protests at the extrajudicial murder of Black people...

        1 reply 1 retweet 37 likes
      3. Jeff McFadden‏ @homemadeguitars 5 Sep 2020
        Replying to @ragepath @drvox and

        But don't forget the sliver of truth that the pandemic is over, and the economy has come roaring back. You must allow for that sliver too. It says here.

        2 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
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      1. Jenna Beacom, M.Ed‏ @jfbeacom 5 Sep 2020
        Replying to @drvolts @drvox and

        Oh come on AP! One version is deluded. One is accurate. It’s not just “they both have a sliver of truth”!!!!

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      1. Rocko‏ @Cairnivorous 5 Sep 2020
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        Rashomon

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      1. Gabe Kruger‏ @gakruger 5 Sep 2020
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        What the actual fuck is this both sideism?

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      1. Sharon Knolle‏ @sknolle 5 Sep 2020
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        ???!!pic.twitter.com/plORjd5HGM

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