Wednesday, November 13, 2024

What's wrong with the New York Times? The election is over and they're still searching out and cataloging disengaged (NOT undecided) voters

 
More than 150,000,000 votes were cast in this election.  And New York Times spent months chasing people who made an art form out of dithering.  What do they teach in journalism school nowadays?  

No wonder newspapers are dying.  They're living in the past.


Months of wasted time, in other words.

When it comes to political reporting, there's plenty that's wrong with the New York Times.
November 2024

October 2024
New York Times headlines mash-up of VP debate:  Vance 'made Trumpism sound polite, calm and coherent' with a cascade of false and misleading statements. (10/6/2024) 
Majority of 13 writers charmed by the smarm of JD Vance.  (10/2)

September 2024

July-August 2024

June 2024

May 2024

January 2024

2023

2019

2018



Matt Gaetz, Trump's blindsiding pick for U.S. Attorney General, poses with his choice for Deputy Attorney General

 


Related post:

Talk about allowing the fox to guard the henhouse

 
New York Times headlines: top, bottom

From today's Times:
The selection of Mr. Gaetz, which blindsided many of Mr. Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill, reflected the president-elect’s determination to choose as the nation’s top law enforcement official a loyal political ally who would not resist his directives or question his claims, as William P. Barr, his last confirmed attorney general, did in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Mr. Gaetz, 42, was the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation that was concluded in 2023 when the Biden Justice Department declined to bring charges.

C'mon Glenn and Devlin, do your jobs!





Ottawa County, Michigan: Another big bill to pay thanks to the incompetence of the far-right Ottawa Impact

 
Headline:  mlive, 11/12/2024
The Rev. Jared Cramer filed a lawsuit in October against county commissioners and Board Chair Joe Moss, suggesting his support for LGBTQ+ rights played a role. 
Cramer claimed that he twice asked to be scheduled as a speaker for the county board’s twice-monthly meetings. Traditionally, the board invites a pastor or faith leader to give an opening prayer. 
He alleged that Moss, co-founder of the highly conservative political platform Ottawa Impact that controls a majority on the board, did not want him to speak.

Related posts:
November 2024

October 2024
Dear Ottawa County voters:  Now is your chance to dump that incompetent clown Joe Moss.  Vote smart!  (10/21)

September 2024

August 2024
2024 primary election Ottawa County Commission:  Far-right Ottawa Impact incumbent Gretchen Crosby gets crush by moderate Republican.  (8/7)

July 2024
 
June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024.  

February 2024 
Chris Vander Sys challenges Ottawa Impact whackjob Gretchen Cosby for seat on Michigan's Ottawa County Board.  (2/21)

January 2024

2023

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Dorothy Allison

 




New York Times, 11/8/2024
Ms. Allison was flat broke in 1989 when she decided to try to sell “Bastard Out of Carolina,” the novel she had been writing for nearly a decade, to a mainstream publisher. “Trash,” a critically praised collection of short stories, had already been published by Firebrand Books, a feminist publishing house; so had her collection of poetry, “The Women Who Hate Me,” which she first published herself as a chapbook in 1983. In both books, she tackled lust, the scrum of feminist politics and her chaotic, beloved family. Feminism had saved her life, she often said, and she was certain that because of her political convictions, the mainstream press would not welcome her.



Related posts:
2024
Paul Auster.  (5/9)
John Barth.  (4/3)
David Boaz.   (6/13)
Caleb Carr.  (5/26)
Shirley Conran.  (5/25)
Robert Coover.  (10/12)
Frederick Crews.  (6/28)
Nelson DeMille.  (10/3)
Anne Edwards.  (2/4)
Richard Ellis.  (6/1)
Ellen Gilchrist.  (2/15)
Gary Indiana.  (10/30)
Sue Johnson.  (6/7)
Barry Kemp.  (6/1)
Elias Khoury.  (10/4)  
Ella Leffland.  (10/9)
Alice Munro.  (5/19)
Terry Robards.  (6/8)
Thomas Rockwell.  (10/14)
Tom Shales.  (1/21)
Ross Terrill.  (8/14)
Vernor Wing . (4/1)
Dan Wakefield , (3/17)

2023
Martin Amis . (5/31)
Richard Anobile.  (3/18)
Russell Banks.  (1/11)
A. S. Byatt.  (11/18)
Ted Bell.  (2/8)
Tim Dorsey.  (12/10)
Herbert Gold.  (11/24)
David Harris.  (2/8)
Paul Johnson.  (1/15)
Milan Kundera . (7/17)
Cormac McCarthy.  (6/19)
Kevin Phillips.  (10/19)
Betty Rollin.  (11/26)
Norman Rush.  (4/7)
Mimi Sheraton.  (4/9)
Charles Simic.  (1/16)
Donald Spoto . (2/18)
D. M. Thomas.  (3/31)
Fay Weldon.  (2/2)
Bill Zehme.  (4/1)

2022
Roger Angell.  (5/24)
Melissa Bank . (8/7)
Raymond Briggs.  (8/20)
Thomas Cahill. (11/16)
Philip K. Dick.  (11/20)
Bruce Duffy,  (3/13)
Todd Gitlin . (2/8)
Rebecca Godfrey.  (11/11)
Ron Goulart.  (2/7)
Doris Grumbach . (11/10)
Robert Hicks.  (3/8)
Thomas Hoving.  (12/19)
Maureen Howard.  (3/19)
Hilary Mantel.  (9/26)
Nancy Mitford.  (4/4)
P. J. O'Rourke.  (2/24)
Julie Powell.  (11/5)
Thomas Pynchon.  (12/17)
Dennis Smith.  (1/27)
Susie Steiner . (7/27)
Larry Woiwode . (5/19)

2021
F. Lee Bailey.  (6/11)
Kim Chernin . (1/10)
Angelo Codevilla.  (10/10)
Stephen Dunn.  (6/29)
James R. Flynn.  (1/30)
Larry Flynt.  (2/12)
Lucinda Franks.  (5/11)
Joseph Galloway.  (8/25)
Norman Golb.  (2/22)
Charles Grodin.  (5/20)
Maria Guarnascheilli , book editor. (2/18)
James Gunn.  (2/21)
Tony Hendra . (3/7)
Norman Juster.   (3/16)
Donald Kagan.  (8/20)
His King . (4/9)
Lyn Macdonald.  (5/15)
Janet Malcolm.  (6/18)
Peter Manso , (4/10)
Ved Mehta.   (1/12)
Marie Mongan.  (3/22)
Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)
James Ridgeway.  (2/16)
David Swensen . (5/13)
Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)
Athan Theoharis.  (6/14/)
Ed Ward.  (5/16)
Michael Thomas.  (8/19)
Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020
Ben Bova.  (12/17)
Clive Cussler.  (2/29)
Betty Dodson  (11/11)
Pete Hamill.  (8/6)
Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)
Roger Kahn.  (2/15)
Randall Kenan.  (9/29)
John Le Carre . (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)
Barry Lopez.  (12/29)
Alison Lurie.  (12/7)
Charlers Portis.  (2/19)
Julia Reed.  (9/8)
John Rothchild.  (1/22)
Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)
Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)
Charles Webb.  (6/30)

2019
Warren Adler . (4/23)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)
And Jenkins . (3/10)
Judith Krantz.  (6/27)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27)
Martin Mayer.  (8/3)
Wright Morris.  (7/25)
Toni Morrison.  (8/12)
Anthony Price.  (6/17)
John Simon.  (12/1)
Sol Stein.  (9/30)
Brad Watson.  (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)
Herman Wouk . (5/20)

2018
Neal Thompson.  (6/17)
Barbara Kafka.   (6/8)

2017
Kit Reed.  (10/1)

2016
E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015

2014

2013

Dear Maggie Haberman: Maybe Kristi Noem can go as Melania's alternate. Who would know the difference? Best, Retiring Guy

 
Headline:  New York Times, 11/13/2024
Mrs. Trump sometimes eschewed tradition in her first stint in the White House. She has not yet outlined how she plans to go about the role in the next administration.

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Meet MAGA Makeover Queen Misti Kristi, America's latest laughingstock.  (5/25/2024)

Kamala Harris makes teeny-tiny bit of headway for Democrats in deepest red Wallace County, Kansas

 
In Kansas, Trump received the highest percentage of the votes in Wallace County in both 2020 and 2024.  The state has 105 counties.

3rd-party candidates received 20.9% of vote in 1992, 
7.2% of vote in 1996, 3.9% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace 
received 14.7% of the vote in 1968)

In Wallace County, Donald Trump received 770 votes in 2020 and 659 votes in 2024, a 14.1% decrease of 111.  Overall, that's a teeny-tiny drop in the national vote bucket but an interesting outcome nonetheless.

Joe Biden received 44 votes in 2020, and Kamala Harris received 50 votes in 2024, a 13.6% increase of 6

Wallace County's population is 1,509, which is down from its  peak of 2,882 in 1930.  It lost nearly one-quarter of its residents during the Dust Bowl years.

MapNew York Times (red box added)

AlterNet, 11/8/2024
Kansas interrupts Trump’s red wall. Of the 105 counties in the state, 20 of them edged toward Harris, rather than Trump. 
Those Kansas counties: Barber, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche, Ellsworth, Greeley, Harper, Kingman, Lane, Logan, Morris, Morton, Ness, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Russell, Sumner, Thomas and Wallace. 
Compare this long list to Missouri (only five Harris swing counties), Iowa (one), Minnesota (three), Illinois (five) and Arkansas (one). Here in Kansas, almost one in five counties swung toward Harris. 
(I am warning you: Beware of considering this as good news, Kansas Democrats. Still more cold water in this bucket.)

Molestation in the Name of the Lord (Arizona edition)

 
#51 in a series

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 11/13/2024
Jose Mora, who was about 45 at the time, was a close family friend — a trusted member of their Tucson church, which most call the Golden Dawn Tabernacle, although its formal name is Tabernaculo Emanuel. Mora would invite church families to his home and cook them dinner. He was fun, friendly and hospitable. Former churchgoers said he was known for having a love for children — especially little boys.

Other miscreant posts:
November 2024
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)