Let's use 2019 to identify terrible journalists so that we can ignore them for the rest of our lives

[tru_m.a.c]

I know we have the Conservative Internet Idiots thread: Conservative Internet Idiots megathread Super classic. @Bollywood Hulk Hogan for starting that.

However, I think we get hit by so many TERRIBLE takes that we need a concise list of authors to avoid at all costs.

Why? Because I think calling out major publications is actually a cop out. Sure the NYTimes did a terrible job of covering Trump leading up to the election, however they also produce some of THE best investigative stories.

Read this tweet thread to understand what I'm getting at. The article in question was written by Natasha Korecki:

 

[tru_m.a.c]

 

[mastermind]

im down

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Writers you can expect shytty takes from:
Predictably, both sides have progressed from that specific and tedious subject to a debate about liberal bias in media, broadly speaking, of which the backlash against Kevin Williamson’s hiring is supposedly proof. “This is not about persuasion or engagement; it never is,” National Review contributor Dan McLaughlin tweeted. “It’s about using anger and organization to shout down, defund, and drive out opposing viewpoints.” The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney moaned: “They always pretend there’s an acceptable conservative somewhere. ‘Oh, just not Douthat.’ ‘Just not McArdle.’ ‘Anyone but Stephens.’ ‘Williamson is literally the worst they could’ve picked.’ Murray, Shapiro, et cetera, et cetera.’ ”

This is all nonsense. Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg challenged progressive followers to recommend right-wing writers “about whom you would not be offended if they were hired by the NY Times/Atlantic/Washington Post/etc?” You would not know reading this question or the griping from Carney, McLaughlin, and all the others that before Williamson, those three publications already employed, by my cursory and possibly incomplete count, 18 conservatives and libertarians writing regularly for them: David Brooks, Bret Stephens, Bari Weiss, Ross Douthat, David Frum, Conor Friedersdorf, Reihan Salam, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Megan McArdle, Marc Thiessen, Max Boot, Michael Gerson, Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker, Radley Balko, Ed Rogers, and Anne Applebaum.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

By November 2015, Trump’s mendacity was raising enough concern that a defense of accusatory restraint was offered by the Washington Post’s Phillip Bump. “For the media to call him a liar might please those who already dislike Trump,” he wrote, “but it doesn’t do the media much good.” Bump argued reporters “can’t know [Trump’s] intentionality” and that some of his lies could be chalked up to exaggeration: “If he inflated his story to some degree to reinforce his apparent strategy of engendering fear among Republican voters, is that a lie or is it rhetoric?”

 

[tru_m.a.c]

throw the whole channel away

 

[Gus Money]

I’m here for this. shytty people need to be called out for their shytty takes.

 

[Strapped]

 

[Black Panther]

I'd like to submit an entry:

John Solomon, Executive Vice President of Digital Video at The Hill. Solomon is frequently cited by @Great Scott .

John F. Solomon is an American media executive and columnist. He is currently vice president of digital video and an opinion contributor for The Hill.[1] He is known primarily for his tenure as an executive and editor-in-chief at The Washington Times.[2] He has been accused of biased reporting in favor of conservatives, and of repeatedly manufacturing faux scandals.[3][4]

His contributions to the site have turned The Hill's political stance further to the right, and he's been called out on it several times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-work-of-john-solomon/?utm_term=.c30049fe10f7

John Solomon Gives Us Less Than Meets the Eye -- Again

Something fishy?

Solomon also frequently teamed up with Sara Carter, a primary source of Sean Hannity's criticism of the Russia probe, during the early parts of Trump's presidency.

Who Is Sara Carter, Hannity’s Go-To Reporter on the Real Russia Scandal?

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I'd like to submit an entry:

John Solomon, Executive Vice President of Digital Video at The Hill. Solomon is frequently cited by @Great Scott .



His contributions to the site have turned The Hill's political stance further to the right, and he's been called out on it several times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-work-of-john-solomon/?utm_term=.c30049fe10f7

John Solomon Gives Us Less Than Meets the Eye -- Again

Something fishy?

Solomon also frequently teamed up with Sara Carter, a primary source of Sean Hannity's criticism of the Russia probe, during the early parts of Trump's presidency.

Who Is Sara Carter, Hannity’s Go-To Reporter on the Real Russia Scandal?

that's what I'm talking about

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Politico is a dumpster fire

 

[Regular_P]

By November 2015, Trump’s mendacity was raising enough concern that a defense of accusatory restraint was offered by the Washington Post’s Phillip Bump. “For the media to call him a liar might please those who already dislike Trump,” he wrote, “but it doesn’t do the media much good.” Bump argued reporters “can’t know [Trump’s] intentionality” and that some of his lies could be chalked up to exaggeration: “If he inflated his story to some degree to reinforce his apparent strategy of engendering fear among Republican voters, is that a lie or is it rhetoric?”

This is my #1 issue with the entire media. We all know Trump and these other a$$holes are constantly lying but they want to say "untruths," "not fact" and "misleading." No, they're fukking lies and they need to print that word when they are lying.

 

[Regular_P]

Writers you can expect shytty takes from:
Predictably, both sides have progressed from that specific and tedious subject to a debate about liberal bias in media, broadly speaking, of which the backlash against Kevin Williamson’s hiring is supposedly proof. “This is not about persuasion or engagement; it never is,” National Review contributor Dan McLaughlin tweeted. “It’s about using anger and organization to shout down, defund, and drive out opposing viewpoints.” The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney moaned: “They always pretend there’s an acceptable conservative somewhere. ‘Oh, just not Douthat.’ ‘Just not McArdle.’ ‘Anyone but Stephens.’ ‘Williamson is literally the worst they could’ve picked.’ Murray, Shapiro, et cetera, et cetera.’ ”

This is all nonsense. Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg challenged progressive followers to recommend right-wing writers “about whom you would not be offended if they were hired by the NY Times/Atlantic/Washington Post/etc?” You would not know reading this question or the griping from Carney, McLaughlin, and all the others that before Williamson, those three publications already employed, by my cursory and possibly incomplete count, 18 conservatives and libertarians writing regularly for them: David Brooks, Bret Stephens, Bari Weiss, Ross Douthat, David Frum, Conor Friedersdorf, Reihan Salam, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Megan McArdle, Marc Thiessen, Max Boot, Michael Gerson, Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker, Radley Balko, Ed Rogers, and Anne Applebaum.

Opinion pages are absolute cesspools. They might as well be called Lobbyist columns with all the bullshyt these Republican writers put in them.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Bring back Dylan Ratigan

 

[Russian Bot v.2.1]

throw the whole channel away

MSNBC is complete horseshyt