President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War,” telling reporters in the Oval Office it was a more “appropriate” name given the state of the world.
It’s more honest, and a retvrn to its original name. Time to drop the pretense.
In all seriousness - I don’t know what Hayes expected. It’s not as if the NYT and other American media outlets became garbage yesterday. The media has published one pro-Trump article after another for years. A huge number of powerful people in the media loves Trump.
Liberals don’t want evenhanded. They badly want the Times to be theirs and the headline to be a pontification of liberal belief with praise of the shining City on Hill crap. I know that’s impossible. There’s no space for that in a headline! But Trump has made the libs insane.
I don’t even know what’s in the article. It might even have tepid criticism.
BREAKING NEWS: In an unprecedented move Trump renames DoD to Department of War
I wonder if that would have mollified the libs. My hunch is mostly - maybe? They’d fixate on the exact wording but Hayes would have only gotten - I dunno - ~20% as many likes. In any case - it’s surreal to hear the libs whining and moaning about this as if it was equivalent to Trump’s extra-judicial executions of 11 people on the open ocean that was not only illegal but in addition he was too fucking lazy to create even a laughable legal justification before he did it. He just did it. And that seems pretty ominous.
as if it was equivalent to Trump’s extra-judicial executions of 11 people
my initial instinct is that to them it is. mainstream politics has been cleansed of the majority of its substance as the parties edge ever-closer together. what’s left besides aesthetics? especially after the 2024 election, it seems that mainstream liberals have become more and more openly apathetic about the state of the world. their single issue is trump and everything he does is Bad™. their ideological framework doesn’t leave much room for such nuance
at least that’s my first thought. maybe it’s always been like this and i’m just too young to remember
I don’t see what’s wrong with that headline. It seems like a pretty straightforward telling of the facts. Isn’t that what a headline is supposed to be? Is it a lie or something I don’t get? It doesn’t seem to be implying anything good or bad about the name change, so I don’t get the problem.
What does he have against the headline exactly?
what is the characterization in the headline
That is the headline.
Who’s on first?
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In all seriousness - I don’t know what Hayes expected. It’s not as if the NYT and other American media outlets became garbage yesterday. The media has published one pro-Trump article after another for years. A huge number of powerful people in the media loves Trump.
no i just mean how else are they supposed to say it? like i can’t imagine a more neutral or evenhanded way to put it
Liberals don’t want evenhanded. They badly want the Times to be theirs and the headline to be a pontification of liberal belief with praise of the shining City on Hill crap. I know that’s impossible. There’s no space for that in a headline! But Trump has made the libs insane.
I don’t even know what’s in the article. It might even have tepid criticism.
oh i get it now. they can’t stand reading one sentence that isn’t about the dang cheeto in the white house. well put comrade
If the NYT wanted to they could’ve written…
I wonder if that would have mollified the libs. My hunch is mostly - maybe? They’d fixate on the exact wording but Hayes would have only gotten - I dunno - ~20% as many likes. In any case - it’s surreal to hear the libs whining and moaning about this as if it was equivalent to Trump’s extra-judicial executions of 11 people on the open ocean that was not only illegal but in addition he was too fucking lazy to create even a laughable legal justification before he did it. He just did it. And that seems pretty ominous.
But there is a precedent.
my initial instinct is that to them it is. mainstream politics has been cleansed of the majority of its substance as the parties edge ever-closer together. what’s left besides aesthetics? especially after the 2024 election, it seems that mainstream liberals have become more and more openly apathetic about the state of the world. their single issue is trump and everything he does is Bad™. their ideological framework doesn’t leave much room for such nuance
at least that’s my first thought. maybe it’s always been like this and i’m just too young to remember
This is my question. I can’t think of how else to express that headline. It’s pretty straightforward.
Is the idea that the headline should say something about how this is bad?
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I don’t see what’s wrong with that headline. It seems like a pretty straightforward telling of the facts. Isn’t that what a headline is supposed to be? Is it a lie or something I don’t get? It doesn’t seem to be implying anything good or bad about the name change, so I don’t get the problem.