Despite what the NY Times claims: Joy actually is a strategy—a winning one at that!
'The NY Times—being the NY Times—on Friday published an op-ed about Vice President Harris with the title, “Joy is not a Strategy.” This article was penned by their Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy who shared how he “cringed a little in the convention hall Tuesday night when Bill Clinton said Kamala Harris would be “the president of joy.” He then criticized Harris for not laying out policy details...'#politics https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/despite-what-the-ny-times-claims
When Biden refused to give the NYT their exclusive interview months ago, the new publisher unleashed a fatwa against Biden, taking every opportunity to paint him in the worst possible light. Now that Biden's out of the race, that asshole has shifted his sights to smearing Harris out of sheer malevolence. Fuck him and the thoroughbred horse he rode in on.
@BenA He claims he's trying to maintain balance instead of becoming a propaganda arm of the party in power. I think the effort to maintain balance when Trump is so extreme means digging extra hard to build demons as powerful as Trump's to campaign against. Its a fool's endeavor. If balance exists report that imbalance. But I think his efforts to return to an extinct journalistic paradigm are more misguided than politically motivated. https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space
Biggest problem with NYT is their museum of opinion relics
@Fellixe
Funny that he didn't announce that justification for trashing Biden until AFTER Biden refused to do the exclusive interview, however. I think he's just trying to justify being a vindictive dick.