EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: You just invented a completely fake justification for lawless behavior from the president and then appealed to the authority of experts to say that it's completely fake. The reader gains nothing from the effort to reframe completely abnormal behavior as if it were normal, followed by the conclusion that the frame just doesn't fit. The president is shaking down companies for ownership shares. Don't pretend there's some sort of case that this could be something other than what it is.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Nowhere in this story about malicious and defamatory behavior by the so-called group Libs of TikTok, the account, the Times writes, “did not respond to questions regarding its post about Mr. Paris.” Is there a single mention of the name Chaya Raichik, who runs Libs of TikTok.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The fact that Andrew Cuomo, whose own residency in New York City is extremely tenuous and recent, even by the most charitable accounts, is trying to recover his standing by pounding away on the Hamptons fundraiser circuit, could be an embarrassing front page story in its own right. It just emphasizes that the anti-Mamdani movement, such as it is, basically represents the desires of a bunch of jerks who want to rule the city from afar, and of the people who operate the New York Times.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times describes Trump's deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops in Washington, DC as “an actualization of one of his most tried and true political arguments. Democrats, often black Democrats, have let lawlessness run rampant in the cities and states they were elected to run.” Now, is that an actualization of the argument? Or is it an invitation to treat the argument as having been actualized? This declaration of what purpose Donald Trump is achieving gets as counterweight the Times writing, “among Democrats, there is widespread agreement that Mr. Trump is stoking fear for political gain and exaggerating statistics to justify a power grab.” Is Trump's relationship to the actual crime statistics something for Democrats to debate among themselves? Or is it something for a newspaper to publish as a fact?

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “Sustained a traumatic head injury amid an Israeli shell explosion” is a fairly convoluted way of saying that Israeli forces shot a 14 year old boy with an artillery shell. And now the Free Press reports that he is completely paralyzed, so it only makes sense that he would be malnourished if you accept the premise that getting adequate nutrition to paralyzed children is an impossible challenge, rather than something doctors routinely do all over the place, or wherever there is an adequate ordinary supply of food and medical equipment and the hospitals aren't being bombed.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Once the Times has developed a rooting interest in the news, it loses all sense of proportion. Cuomo and Adams are both actually scandalous figures who are totally unfit for office. But rather than documenting that, the Times is obsessed with trying to prove that the squeaky clean Mamdani must also somehow be disqualified.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: If Donald Trump were taking Fred Trump's words literally, if Fred Trump had meant his words to be taken literally, the federal government would be sending out the National Guard with paint rollers and power washers. They'd be building housing for the homeless people so they're not living messy lives out on the street. But when Donald Trump says a place is dirty, what he means is that it has the wrong kind of people in it. And what you do in New York real estate, if you're a certain kind of person, is you chase those people out with the help of the cops, if you can get it.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: We're really getting back to the kind of presidential time wasting that came with the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, “during the 78-minute news conference, during which he was flanked by several members of his cabinet, Mr. Trump took the lectern in the White House briefing room and said he also intended to clear out the Capitol's homeless population without saying how officials would do it or detailing where those people would go.” This story is also nicely illustrated with a photograph filling the remaining four columns across the top of the page of the journalists in the briefing room, all thrusting their hands up eagerly to engage with the president's lunatic gambit.

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: If I were writing a news story about the president going to the Federal Reserve to put public pressure on the chairman and having the chairman point out with cameras rolling that the president's complaint was essentially a fabrication I would make that the top of the story, an official who the president is trying to push out, despite lacking the legal authority to do so openly fighting back against the president, when subjected to a staged struggle session, seems like the noteworthy aspect of what happened, and notably that was how the Times website played it, in the collection of live blog items and squibs from which the front page story was assembled online the headline is “Powell fact-checks Trump on cost of Fed renovations” and their dispute makes it into the third paragraph, after what's otherwise the same lead as the print story and a separate live blog entry has the headline “Face to face Powell told Trump He was wrong about a construction project.” Somebody needs to let the live blog editor into the page one meeting.

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