David Corn: Dear @nytimes,

[kpete]

David Corn (@DavidCornDC) posted at 8:31 AM on Sat, Mar 16, 2024:
Dear @nytimes,

Good morning. How are you? I’m just wondering why in today’s paper there’s no mention of Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former veep (as you know), saying he won’t endorse Trump. Not on the front page. Not inside. Seems kinda big. Are you okay?

Sincerely,

Concerned

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[Ocelot II]

1. It's in the online version.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-endorsement.html

[TwilightZone]

2. You would think that Corn would take 30 seconds to check.

But, no, he'd rather look like he's lazy and has no idea what he's talking about.

This is happening on an increasingly-frequent basis. I'm not sure why. Part of me thinks it's intentional and that they just assume no one will bother checking.

[Ocelot II]

3. He might have been looking at a paper edition

that went to press before the story broke; that happens with hard-copy newspapers. NYT kinda sucks these days with their wishy-washy both-sides stories, but busting on them for this is stupid. Corn should have known better and checked the online version.

[TwilightZone]

4. Yep. 93.5% of their subscription base is online.

Not checking it is either laziness or intentional ignorance.

From Wikipedia:

"As of February 2024, The New York Times has 10.36 million subscribers, with 9.7 million online subscribers and 660,000 print subscribers"

[jaxexpat]

10. He plainly references Saturday's paper in his text, dated this morning.

He even related his perusal in terms of "pages". A dead give-away, eh, Sherlock?

Revealing intentional ignorance or laziness? Such hurtful terms. Maybe, it's simply a problem with reading comprehension.

We should all sit back and, taking a deep breath, grok on the concept that words usually imply their essential definition. Shall we proceed in a world illuminated by our hypertensive preconceptions or enable reality to reveal itself through observation?

I feel the healing already, you?

[stopdiggin]

11. I don't know. I kinda' like to check

before I really start ripping on someone (or something). But then - there are priorities ... And hanging with the cool kids ...

[jaxexpat]

12. Sure, check and confirm. That's good thinking. It prevents acting out under misimpressions.

Don't really get the rest of your post....... accented, bolded and underlined, priorities. Explain.

Cool kids? What is that cryptic nominal expression supposed to mean?

Ripping? huh?

[question everything]

17. The WSJ has it in its print edition. It often preface an incomplete story with "by the time we went to print"

so I think that the NYT could have, too

[W_HAMILTON]

14. He is clearly referring to the print copy.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. That's Friday's edition

Corn appears to be referencing the Saturday (week-end) edition.

[BComplex]

5. I love me some David Corn!

[DoBW]

7. Sorry, they're busy right now

licking Trump boots

[nikatnyte]

8. Precisely why I cancelled my subscription

The incredible bias that the NYT has shown to Trumpism finally got to me. After twenty years I cancelled my subscription two weeks ago. Their website gave me a field to state my reason, and I didn't hold back.

[wolfie001]

9. I believe the fix is in!

The 1%'ers want that orange, fat narcissist back in the WH because he gives them EVERYTHING they want. Pollution, no taxes (NOT LOW, NO). Let them spew their racist bullshit 24/7. Heartless creatures, really. Gas prices are creeping back up. Oil companies admitted in a tweet that the President doesn't control the prices at the pump. Those nasty F's definitely want the creep back.

[Warpy]

15. He's got a point

You'd think this would be screamed out by every single news outlet in the country.

Here's a selection of front pages: https://www.frontpages.com/us-newspapers//

Consider what would happen if Harris announced she couldn't endorse Biden. How many days of screaming headlines do you think publishers would get out of that one? There would be speculation and speculation about the speculation, reporters following her around, screaming questions at her, reporting on facial expressions.

With Pence refusing to endorse TFG, crickets. Pence is the only non relative who spent all 4 years close to TFG. This is kind of a big deal, fellas. What the hell is the matter with you all? No wonder newspapers are going under with this level of reporting on real news instead of sex and violence. You guys drunk? Doped? Asleep? Rabidly corrupt?

[vanlassie]

16. Who gets the paper edition?

Who reads their NYT on-line?