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senseandsensibility

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16. Agreed

Mon May 25, 2026, 06:51 PM

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They made a factually inaccurate statement in their headline that I guess we are just supposed to believe errors in trump's favor by accident. I don't buy that for a second. Headline writing is an artform and extremely important when conveying information. In fact, large numbers of readers only scan the headlines and will, in fact, see errors more there than in the article itself. I remember as a journalism student writing headlines for my college newspaper. It was taken very seriously and had to be signed off on by an editor. Factual errors were unheard of and a nonstarter even for journalism students.

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Perfect example of the NYT shaping the news to favor trump [View all] senseandsensibility Monday OP

Or... lame54 Monday #1

Shameless headline. Baitball Blogger Monday #2

Yet every day we are treated to a new episode of this senseandsensibility Monday #3

Exactly. That's how misinformation works for authoritarian propagandist governments. littlemissmartypants Monday #4

the headline I saw: republicans to leave Congress for defying trump mountain grammy Monday #9

Agree!! Ilikepurple Monday #10

but the economy is NOT getting better and it CAN BE BLAMED on this DUMB WAR LymphocyteLover Monday #14

He won't accept the humiliating terms required to extract from his monumental mistake pat_k Monday #5

I undestand the sentiment liberalgunwilltravel Monday #6

Folks here love to hate the NYT bif Monday #8

There are much worse offenders fujiyamasan Monday #12

It seems they could have said 'may have to' instead of 'had to' and everything would be ok? ToxMarz Monday #13

That's all Beyerstein has? That's .... reACTIONary Monday #7

"NACHO, NACHO MAN..." (Everybody sing along!) (eom) ClickClack Monday #11

The NYT has made it the paper's mission to agingdem Monday #15

Agreed senseandsensibility Monday #16