The Old Grey Lady and Dementia

By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 2:49pm |

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https://digbysblog.net/2020/01/the-breathtaking-naivete-of-the-new-york-times/

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side topic, re: your headline. dunno, seems to me they are going for more youngins to attract youngin readers, actually. I just noticed that they've put on their Editorial Board:a 30-yr. old African-American female with bachelor's degree in PoliSci and a few years local news journo experience @ WSJ after a few years hopping around general reporter

Mara Gay

Mara Gay is a member of the New York Times editorial board, focusing on New York State and local affairs. Before coming to The Times in 2018, she was a City Hall reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering Mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, and dozens of other stories that have shaped the nation’s largest, most dynamic city. Ms. Gay has also worked for the New York Daily News, The Atlantic and The Daily, an all-digital newspaper owned by News Corp. She has a degree in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a New York City native and lives in Brooklyn.

I got her age here.

I noticed because she just blasted Hillary "ok boomer" style in a piece the other day, and went to check her out because I went "who the heck is that, never noticed her byline before)

As one of Bernie’s younger supporters might say: “Wow. Rude!” https://t.co/NEsWNwMLsT
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 1:15am

A bit of Wokeness into every life must fall.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 6:09am

So far, after checking further, looking like she's a divider type of woke, not a uniter, all for primarying anyone that got elected before 2016? (The party formerly know as Democratic, now a bunch of reactionary scum? Or maybe like: boomers: kill them all? Hillary a machine pol for sure, maybe even a Nazi.) We'll see.

“The party machine can’t stop us.” Great @hgoldman77 story https://t.co/wCyW2CHGdm
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 8:59pm

That's a pretty extreme analysis. I don't get anything near that from what I've read of Mara Gay. Do you have anything to support your analysis?

by ocean-kat on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 9:15pm

That post is enough, but I did look at her Twitter feed too. She's clearly anti-classic-Dem, looks forward to them all being replaced with "The Squad" types. I would not be surprised if she was anti-Pelosi, too, too much of a compromiser. It's a very common syndrome in NYC. This is why we ended up with Republican mayors being elected, the activists are very lefty and get this impression that everyone in the city is like all their Brooklyn friends. Alas, the quiet centrists also end up voting too....

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 9:24pm

Did you object to her pieces on Michael Bloomberg or bail reform?

Bloomberg

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/opinion/Michael-bloomberg-stop-and-frisk.html

Bail

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/opinion/new-york-bail-reform.html

Complete list of NYT op-eds

https://www.nytimes.com/by/mara-gay

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 9:46pm

I don't "object" to op-ed pieces. I read them. And after a time, I might make a judgment about the writer and what angles they push and then whether they do that well enough to continue reading them or go find someone who represents the same view but writes better and is more sophisticated about challenging readers' thoughts.

Not a big fan of the agitprop type of op-ed, as you might know by now. No matter what political angle is being pushed. Don't get a lot out of "amen" and "say it again, brother" technique, left right or center.

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 9:53pm

Mara Gay was part of the NYT editorial boards' endorsement of Warren and Klobuchar

Here is her explanation on MSNBC's " Morning Joe"

Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board, on Monday explained the newspaper's decision to endorse two candidates in the Democrat primary, for the first time ever.

"Both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration," the editorial said. "That’s why we’re endorsing the most effective advocates for each approach. They are Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar."

Mara Gay told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, "The party is extremely divided, and this is really our way of narrowing that field and also just pointing out to voters that there is more than one pathway forward here.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/ny-times-editorial-board-member-explains-double-endorsement

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 10:51pm

Well I'm pretty anti-establishment too, and I support primary challenges of conservative politicians. One of the politicians referenced in the article added amendments in an important abortion bill against same sex marriage and equal pay for women. I'd have difficulty voting for someone that far out of sync with my principles.

Does that mean I think the party is scum? That I want all boomers killed? That Hillary etc. are Nazis? That's what I don't see in Mara's posts.

by ocean-kat on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 10:20pm

Similar comments were made by other writers at the NYT

Her remarks ricocheted across the Democratic Party on Tuesday, threatening to reopen the barely healed wounds of the 2016 primary, a race that quickly turned from a near-coronation of Mrs. Clinton as the party’s first female nominee into a bitter battle that exposed a deep ideological rift among Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.html

From Politico

Hillary Clinton lambasted Bernie Sanders in a forthcoming documentary as a “career politician” who “nobody likes,” savaging her rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination less than two weeks before the 2020 Iowa caucuses.

The brutal remarks reopened longstanding party wounds, with multiple Obama White House alumni knocking Clinton, Sanders supporters galvanizing behind their candidate, and current and former Clinton aides rushing to her defense.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/21/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-2020-election-101339

Seems that she got the story right. The NYT has been looking for a younger audience. Age does not mean that she is not qualified

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 8:43am

Reading Brooks, Friedman, and Dowd is an excellent cure for insomnia.

Jamelle Bouie and Charles Blow, for example, offer different views of issues. The NYT is trying to maintain relevancy.

Bob Herbert, who filled a similar role, retired

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 4:14pm

The Old Grey Lady and Dementia

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