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Miles Archer

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Wed May 10, 2017, 09:43 AM May 2017

NYT "inviting readers to write in with suggestions of Trump's "praiseworthy" behavior."

Now it's the prompt for a recurring feature in the New York Times. The bewildering column will appear (indeed, has already started appearing) in the weekly Sunday Review. It is not clear whether it will run every week. But the focus will be "to present things the president has said or done that are praiseworthy."

In fact, the Times is inviting readers to write in with suggestions of Trump's "praiseworthy" behavior. The column seems to be called "Say Something Nice About Donald Trump." Here's the pitch.




The first column, for instance, is about "the upside" of Trump's anxiety-provoking Twitter feed. "Thanks to @realDonaldtrump, the average citizen now has a view straight into the president’s id," Kinsley notes. "You may not like what you see, but you can see it." It's true: Trump does tweet. But his tweets typically serve to obfuscate or mislead, not provide some generous window into the 45th president's unguarded soul. (This essay in praise of Trump's Twitter has already angered some Times readers.)


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/why-is-the-new-york-times-running-a-column-to-praise-trump/
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NYT "inviting readers to write in with suggestions of Trump's "praiseworthy" behavior." (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2017 OP
Can't think of one redeeming quality including "He was good to his mother". no_hypocrisy May 2017 #1
My name Bill Durbin of Centerville Ohio. I think Trump very good man. underpants May 2017 #2
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