GET ME REWRITE: New York Times courtroom reporters party like it's a black-and-white Raymond Burr Perry Mason festival

 

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Headline:  New York Times, 5/2/2024

As the case heats up, though, Trump’s legal team has increasingly gone on the offensive, confronting prosecution witnesses head-on — a strategy that was on full display today, during a rugged cross-examination of Keith Davidson, a Los Angeles lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels. 

Daniels, a porn star, was paid $130,000 by Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, in 2016 to ensure her silence about a single-night sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. 

In two days of testimony, Davidson offered a vivid description of the deal to cover up Daniels’s story and another hush-money arrangement involving Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she had a 10-month affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007. McDougal’s story was never published, part of a pattern of “catch-and-kill”: the supermarket tabloid practice of buying up negative stories and then burying them.

What's the matter with The New York Times?

April 2024

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Once again, a New York Times headline writer misses the mark. (4/1)

March 2024

Dear New York Times, How does my life look now?  Pretty much like it did in December 2019.  Best, Retiring Guy.  (3/11)

Leave it to the New York Times to come up with an incorrect and exceedingly lame headline.  (3/8)

February 2024

Meet Natalie Brumfield, New York Times go-to for positives about Alabama Supreme Court decision on embryos.  (2/23)