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Art Martin
@gartmartin9.bsky.social

Of course it was written by Jeremy Peters--chief NYT transphobe and launderer of far right organizations/people (remember his Virginia "soccer moms" who wanted to ban Toni Morrison books--actually GOP operatives)--and this "classic" www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/b...

nytimes.comCritics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple. (Published 2022)Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear.
Wrenclouds
@wrenclouds.bsky.social

I like to think of this as the 'Swedish boob guy fetish' effect, because of that one guy who got his fake studies about breast sizes laundered into the mainstream media with fake academic journals that first got picked up by fringe websites, then worked their way up the food chain

Mike Palmer
@icengineer.bsky.social

Sounds like we're back to what Frum described in "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush." They couldn't feed crap directly to Rush Limbaugh, but they could feed it to outlets like the Washington Times, which was happy to print crap, and if the WT printed it, it was ok for Rush.

Mad Scholar Frights
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

Way back in the mists of time, this is how they justified covering the OJ trial after resisting it as "too tabloid" and not actually important. The stories were about how fascinated Americans and their media were by OJ and the trial.

Amanda in Atlanta (she/her)
@atlnewsgirl.bsky.social

I was in journalism school at USC at the time and I remember this era in great detail — especially how news as an industry/profession fundamentally changed. It coincided with the dawn of the internet so a double whammy. Everything changed constantly for the 25ish years I worked in journalism.