“All The News That’s Fit To Print”

The current NYT home page is 4 stories about Biden's age, an editorial board piece urging him to quit, plus about how Trump is moderating the GOP on abortion (that does not mention the GOP platform proposes that fetuses are given personhood status). pic.twitter.com/RNPa3GHGv7

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 9, 2024

My view is that NYT—perhaps the president’s primary persecutor recently—showed its whole ass with this swiss-cheese Parkinson’s specialist story. It’s blatantly copied from right-wing charlatans, virtually unvetted. And a nimbler WH/campaign would’ve made it pay dearly for that.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 8, 2024

NYTimes: Dr. Cannard specializes in movement disorders.

LINKED physical report: Dr. O'Sullivan added movement disorder specialists to treatment team in November 2021.

NYT: Must be Parkinson's. https://t.co/MTbScBQ3qZ pic.twitter.com/axushCkBsu

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

This reporting on Parkinsons is not about Joe Biden.

It's about a press corps that has utterly abdicated basic standards of journalism.

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

Peter Baker Argues Joe Biden Is Unfit because Peter Baker Is Too Lazy to Read the Homeworkhttps://t.co/Nv7FOPvyX8

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

ABC's @KFaulders wants to confess, that like Peter Baker, she also skipped over the part of yearly physical report which described bringing in a movement disorder neurologist for Biden's gait in 2021.

It's under the "neurology" heading. https://t.co/L3HjYPpZSw

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

One reason it is SO PAINFULLY STUPID that @peterbakernyt didn't notice that Biden's physical explained that Dr. O'Sullivan added someone like Dr. Cannard to Biden's team in 2021 is because that section head is [wait for it] neurology. https://t.co/Otm0Ohr9Ht

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

Once again, bc I've despaired of NYT being any less trashy than NYPost. Biden's physical describes a movement disorder specialist BEING ADDED TO BIDEN'S TEAM in 2021.

For something else, not Parkinsons.https://t.co/59LfMifndl pic.twitter.com/QVYNIqDj1Z

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

Hey @peterbakernyt:

Do you think maybe it'd be responsible journalism to note that the REPORT YOU LINKED described Biden's doctor adding a movement disorder neuro person to Biden's team for something else?

Or no, NYT doesn't require you to exhibit basic reading skills? https://t.co/VLctnArOPP

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

Follow the leader.

This reporting on Parkinsons is not about Joe Biden.

It's about a press corps that has utterly abdicated basic standards of journalism.

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

I'm very grateful people read the platform and debunked the false claims from the Trump whisperers.

But this mob mentality is anything but journalism, worsened by the sheer arrogance and self-importance of it. You're chasing Murdoch propaganda, people!!

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024

Oh. Well, that's a transparent falsehood. https://t.co/cbEJ0CZVmO

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 9, 2024

I don't know whether Biden should drop out, but I haven't seen the New York Times this horny for an outcome since the buildup to the Iraq war

— Tim Dickinson (@7im) July 9, 2024

Once more, with feeling:

My mom got her DMin ~15 years into her Parkinson's diagnosis. Was she speaking haltingly by then? Yep. Had she long since been prone to dangerous falls? Yep.

Did she nevertheless get a Doctorate bc she remained intellectually sharp and curious? Yep. https://t.co/c4WLVhd3JH

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 9, 2024

Parkinson’s affects movement, not cognitive ability. FDR was confined to a wheelchair for his entire Presidency.

I’ll just end with this:

In France, over 100 news outlets had "signed an open letter calling for a journalistic 'common front' against the far right and warning that its arrival in power would constitute a mortal threat to press freedom."

Via @Jon_Allsop/@CJR https://t.co/pAVvsOJeVr

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) July 8, 2024

Trump now threatens to put Mark Zuckerberg and others in prison. pic.twitter.com/4XTE57yLFQ

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 9, 2024

I’m sure the NYT will soon report that Trump has moderated his stance on the First Amendment.

Here's what happened today.
Trump got his whisperers like Maggie to claim he had moderated his party on abortion.
People who know better IDed it instead as a fetal personhood stance (that is, he lied, journos bought it).
Meanwhile EVERYONE ELSE is chasing Parkinsons conspiracies.

— emptywheel (checking account) (@emptywheel) July 8, 2024