Is it me, or does Egan's reporting sound like the NYT pitchbot.?... republicans did something terrible, here's why that's bad for Democrats. She keeps reiterating the same assumptions over and over, (that the Democrats are in disarray, they can't agree on what went wrong or where to go in the future, etc etc). As if all Democrats want to…
Is it me, or does Egan's reporting sound like the NYT pitchbot.?... republicans did something terrible, here's why that's bad for Democrats. She keeps reiterating the same assumptions over and over, (that the Democrats are in disarray, they can't agree on what went wrong or where to go in the future, etc etc). As if all Democrats want to or should agree on everything all the time. This is the same framing that makes me insane about mainstream media. I'd love to hear some of your takes on this.
I completely agree with you and generally tend to avoid her articles. There's never any new insight or perspective and she's really, really bad at connecting the dots by which I mean, she personifies the 24 hour news cycle style and doesn't connect what's happening in the moment to what's happened before and what it portends for the the future. Hopefully she's being mentored and will hone her skills...
Is it me, or does Egan's reporting sound like the NYT pitchbot.?... republicans did something terrible, here's why that's bad for Democrats. She keeps reiterating the same assumptions over and over, (that the Democrats are in disarray, they can't agree on what went wrong or where to go in the future, etc etc). As if all Democrats want to or should agree on everything all the time. This is the same framing that makes me insane about mainstream media. I'd love to hear some of your takes on this.
I really wish they had hired someone to cover Democrats who didn't have contempt for them, and who had a slightly longer memory.
I completely agree with you and generally tend to avoid her articles. There's never any new insight or perspective and she's really, really bad at connecting the dots by which I mean, she personifies the 24 hour news cycle style and doesn't connect what's happening in the moment to what's happened before and what it portends for the the future. Hopefully she's being mentored and will hone her skills...