Giving a fuck about what Rufo thinks or does 😡

Dang, I've already cancelled my subscription to The Washington Post, don't make me cancel the NY Times by publishing this kind of junk. What do you expect an Asian man born in Uganda to put on the form? Has anyone there even seen an Ivy League entrance form?

We can't let the racists scoop us on our racist stories - The NYT

Why is this even a story???

That's what I want to know. Who cares what countries he put on his college app? This is like the Kamala thing all over again.

Great point!

Yet another reason why NYT is never getting my $.

“The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor. Guys, look at how much attention we got for publishing a Nazi! We can get a lot of clicks doing this!

Absolutely. I suggest we just pretend the NYTimes (to Line the Birdcage) doesn't exist anymore.

God they all hate Mamdani SOOOOOOOOOO much!

“Scooped”? Man, people are both extremely warped and extremely petty if this passes for a scoop

Loooooollll—should have smelled Rufo on this one

Right - he smells like a giant alex Jones turd sprayed with a little Poo-pori

Why does it keep getting air from the opposition side? It’s bs, we know - let it go!

reminds me of it's always Sunny in Philadelphia. how you can take a bad situation and make it so, so, much worse

ABSOLUTELY WILD HOW DEEP THIS PIT KEEPS GETTING

NYT has always bowed to nazis.

Show of hands, who here thinks any of it doesnt frigging matter?🖐

BC NYT is not great

As details emerge, it’s ridiculously obvious that this “scoop” is reflective of the general standard for MSM journalism. It’s no longer about accuracy and context. As the competition for eyeballs and clicks becomes even harder, standards are tossed aside. That, or it was an intentional hit piece

Both. It was both.

This exactly what I said out loud!

Probably helps that the people behind it *also* keep getting worse.

How can I cancel the Times if I canceled them five days ago??? Problems.

The story *could* have been that online race trolls were trying to smear a candidate with a non-issue.

The hilarious part for me was the NYT not realising that “Asian” does not necessarily mean East Asian. As a Brit, the majority of citizens with Asian heritage are south Asian. I know it’s not the same in the US. But come on…

They're running out of feet to shoot themselves in.

Maybe we should stop giving it oxygen

If and when he wins, a brilliant Nixon goes to China maneuver for Mamdani would be to shun then NYT and befriend/detente the NY Post. Why not?

How does it keep going at all? Nothingburger.

I had canceled everything before but the Food subscription so today I canceled that

🤝

me too. I switched to the deglaze app

... so they hated that Chris Rufo was making up bs and feeding it to them as truths, so rather than realize that mistake (that they've been fucking up and Rufo played them for fools for years) they... got their bs from someone else to try to get ahead of Chris Rufo feeding them bs?

It’s just stupid to the nth power.

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Because it is a race to the bottom

Wow, that's pathetic even by NYT's standards...

Fucking pathetic

Who knew it could be worse? So much worse.

1. Sadly, we are going to be saying that about everything for the next 3 1/2 years. Wow. 2. This is a screenshot of a post I just left on another site. (Not X - ever again.) It kind of addresses several of these stories happening tonight. We are not in a good place. It’s just bad.

Like a house of cards of awful!

It keeps getting worse because @nytimes.com has an enduring hatred and/or fear of progressives. It warps their reporting and editing.

How does anyone get scooped by the likes of a muckraker like Rufo?

How does the New York Times keep getting worse

what an absolute masterclass

Just as a sidenote to all this, drives me crazy that people think that being in your 30s is too young to hold an important government position, but a 17 year old is supposed to be entirely responsible for making a nuanced political decision while filling out a poorly constructed form.

Omg really

"Hold the presses Chief, I've got a scoop!"

It keeps getting worse because the NYTs keeps getting worse.

Because that is how EVERY story goes nowadays?

How is R*fo an "independent journalist"?? In what universe?

Rufo.

Journalistic integrity be damned. The rot is deep at that paper.

"The fact that many reacted to this story for a myriad of problematic issues made it clearly an important story to print!" No, making a spectacle is not the same as effective and well done reporting!

NYT not beating the allegations that Chris Rufo is their assignment editor

People need to cancel their subscription

Lord, I don't ask you for much, but I'd really like five minutes alone with Chris Rufo.

People seem to have persuaded themselves that this story would have died had the Times sat on it

Arguably if NYT wanted to get ahead they could have written that story, about Nazis trying to start a race controversy with hacked data. But as it turns out, they wanted to be the Nazis.

Thanks to all of you who replied and informed me. I missed the story when it came out! I just cancelled my subscription - been thinking to do so for a while,.

Is that their purpose?

Exactly. The story that never gets told is the 100% bad faith of the right's allegations.

"The @nytimes.com is helping to anonymously launder the complaints of a eugenicist about the existence of nonwhite students at Ivy League schools because that is a cause that the editorial board and ownership broadly agree with." bsky.app/profile/gold... NYT "crypto" history of coordinating this:

'What NYTpitchbot doing?' "Nothing, they just stole all my ammo, for the coming week." 'Consider a ceasefire then, or even a truce!' "No, I have trust in these goons, there will be tons of new inspiration tomorrow, at the latest."

Why is it still socially acceptable to work for the NYT?

New Aryan Times

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And I'm pretty sure the Times won't even mention this, in which Ann Coulter is basically calling for direct violence against Native people. What they choose to manufacture *coupled* with what they ignore is all the more damning about their editorial thrust.

Insanity

Harsh, but fair.

Also a good story right there.

👆 there it is

This is the part THEY don't seem to have grokked

Race is a complex, artificial construct. Being a Nazi is apparently an immutable characteristic.

OOOOOOF

@nytimes.com would have turned in Anne Frank. Know your enemies

Sometimes, you have to be a little bit harsh in order to hurt a lot of people.

As @mtsw.bsky.social says: “They like Trump, and they want him to rule us like a king”

The NYT is a Likud rag

Meanwhile in the editorial zoom Meeting

Hard to believe anyone can take the @nytimes.com seriously as a news source after this latest fiasco...

You would not know higher ed employs more than ten people from their sourcing. But mostly him and Larry Summers.

My conspiracy is the Times wanted to hold on to this until September, but Rufo and Lasker forced their hand.

Do I have to tap the sign again that the NYT cannot get scooped by someone who wrote that Rwandan immigrants were eating cats in Ohio based on the sources of people asking for money and literal children

Can't help noticing this was James Comey's exact excuse for committing a massive act of misconduct to sabotage Hillary 10 days before the 2016 election--"someone else was likely to do it, so I had to do it first"

What’s the over/under he commissioned the hack?

if your publication is jockeying for scoops against Chris Rufo that says a lot more about your publication than it does about him

Kind of like the New York Post trying to beat The National Inquirer to a "scoop"..... Does the readership of any reputable outlet really care about "scoops"??

And what does it say about those who read the times

RIGHT LIKE THE MAN GAVE UP RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE IT WAS TOO SCARY FOR HIM HE IS NOT A SERIOUS HUMAN BEING HE IS BITCHMADE TIL HE DIES ALSO A NAZI WHAT THE FUCK Are we doing here times????

Right, like he outright made it clear he was laundering his bs through them, they still bought it, and now that they continued to buy in it... they just keep digging that hole without his help. Like damn if anything Chris Rufo is fucking happy they took it upon themselves to continue his work.

Like that's the ultimate own for him. He not only laundered his bs through them. He got them to start laundering other bs.

Exactly bsky.app/profile/swif...

My suspicion was “either everyone up the chain signed off on this or nobody did” and Patrick Healy frantically slamming the publish button on the CMS to avoid being scooped by Rufo is both things at once.

sure, that’s one way to describe him, Semafor

Good lord.

They love finding ways to make it about the media themselves.

classic Semafor

they lost the correct flags

lol transparent. Hey Semafor, why haven’t you been transparent on where you got the millions to replace all the money Sam Bankman Fried gave you?

tbf we can see through them.

Wow. That’s insane.

NYT editors put Claudine Gay in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" "If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, 13 bsky.app/profile/orig...

I don’t have any axe to grind with semafor - but I struggle to understand - beyond people who work at the times, who the audience it’s for semafor?

Semafor prizes brevity over all else, especially context

Smirk The face of privilege 🖕

He’s a race-baiting huckster *by his own admission.* A lot of narrative setters are saying this is fine, even valued.

That's like calling William Pierce a "novelist"

Someone please hurry and alert the NYT: Facebook Marketplace is about to drop the story of my gently used washer/dryer combo for sale for $50.

It's a recurring problem with Semafor: they keep going out of their way to use respectable-sounding terms for describing people who really, really don't merit it.

On the plus side Marisa, now you know how to get them to credit you for your scoops. Oh wait…

Giving him credit without batting an eyelash but pretending like you don't deserve a drop of recognition at every possible turn

wonder what was the difference between these two hacks where one they needed to release quickly vs not at all www.adweek.com/morning-medi...

it's really giving watercolour painter Adolf Hitler type vibe lol

Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?

Noted Georgian poet, Josef Stalin

Genetic mastermind Liz Holmes

Footwear aficionado Imelda Marcos

Lover and Fighter, Ghengis Kahn

don’t want to get scooped by the uh, “journalist” I guess who sits around on Twitter going “I’m going to intentionally spread misinformation and here are the exact steps I am going to use to do it”

That’s a hell of an autocorrect from “disinfo peddler.”

Ah yes. The reputable family doctor, Joseph Mengele.

What the FUCK

"the story"

Nope. Refuse to believe this, and not because it isn’t true

love how every trans reporter is automatically an "activist" by default while self-proclaimed activist chris rufo is an independent journalist w/ invisible bylines

I prefer to describe Chris Rufo by a very specific five letter word that rhymes with a mild skin irritation symptom. Asshole will work too.

Referring to Rufo as a independent journalist is like calling Joseph Goebbells and unbiased documentarian

“independent journalist” The degree of image rehab that gets done for these people is still astonishing to me.

siiiiigh

they might as well just hire Rufo and cut out the middle man

Lmao

“We gotta race the propagandist to get this story out there!”

This is what you get when you have editor-driven journalism: The editor decides what is “the news” and then assigns reporters to concoct an article supporting the editor’s vision, regardless of facts, reason, or balance.

So glad I canceled by subscription 3 years ago

Also not doing anything to refute the accusation that editors are defying or ignoring Sulzberger's own criteria for journalism

"independent journalist, Chris Rufo"

Let’s be blunt, what kind of journalist who claims to care about kids goes to work for a Governor tied to multiple child predators

Weird how NYT’s editorial decisions are set by the likes of Rufo and Bannon

Let AI take a crack at it.

Idk it just keeps giving every day

It’s this whole fucking country in total demise. Right now I’m listening to fireworks bombs on Sunday night @10:30pm.

This is so gross. Great job, corporate media!

I see that "NY Times" is involved. There's your answer.

BECAUSE IT’S THE NY TIMES!

Couldn’t the Times just say it was an exclusive and then update their story later to say that it was “first reported by some independent journalist, we forget which one” if anyone pointed out it wasn’t? I’m pretty sure I saw that happen once or twice before

What I like the most about all of this is that neither Mamdani, himself, nor anyone from his staff has bothered with this hot stinking mess. He continues on his campaign of fighting on behalf of us working-class and lower-class New Yorkers.

Exactly! They call him. He tells them what happened and it’s not a story. Sadly, the story really is about NYT and their lack of journalistic integrity on this one.

Imagine a legacy newspaper trying to beat out some two-bit troll for a scoop.

Social media tragically controls the flow of information, w/ algorithms rewarding troll tactics. When every adult in the country is tapped into at least one of an array of skinner boxes, any entity vying for attention will get pulled along. Terrifying: millions people believe this story is legit.

Happens every day, seems like.

Of course Rufo was involved.

Ready? Rufo just congratulated his NYT “friends” there for their treachery

New College has some thoughts.

Used to be a journalist. Reporter, then an editor at various places for years. (Forced out when I became old and expensive.) Used to be proud of my career. I’m becoming less so when I see standards-lowering incidents like this more and more.

The more Zo scares the right people, the more I wanna vote for him. Votes from Colorado are probably illegal, but it’s more a symbolic thing.

Chris Rufo has been driving the news cycle for YEARS

Much ado about nothing.

In real journalism, "get it accurate" is more important than "get it first." 24/7 news ruined journalism.

Also, rich arseholes buying up all the outlets...

@thebaltimorebanner.com has provided an answer

On the list of things that bother me about Mamdani, this is #7.

Thomas Pynchon: "Imagine how Right Wing you'd have to be, to think of the New York Times as a Left Wing newspaper."

LOL pushed ahead to get scooped on a literal nonissue. Meanwhile actual authoritarians who do whatever tf they want loot the shop while we all carry the corpse of this empire so it doesn’t crush the folks left. Boy I wasn’t expecting mainstream journalism to die so fckng rapidly

Bwaahhaahhahaa What am incredible self-own

It’s giving Comey vibes