This is brilliant. Exactly right. It's not just about the error itself, which is chronicled here masterfully. It's more like "why the hell are they writing this with blood literally not yet dry?" The whole effort to dwell into every remark uttered by one of his generation's greatest talkers is aimed at finding a repugnant sentence or two so the shocking number of people declaring how not upset they are over a young man's assassination can claim some justification. It's not just bad journalism by the Times. It's ghoulish behavior.
This is brilliant. Exactly right. It's not just about the error itself, which is chronicled here masterfully. It's more like "why the hell are they writing this with blood literally not yet dry?" The whole effort to dwell into every remark uttered by one of his generation's greatest talkers is aimed at finding a repugnant sentence or two so the shocking number of people declaring how not upset they are over a young man's assassination can claim some justification. It's not just bad journalism by the Times. It's ghoulish behavior.
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The NYT has done more to inflame antisemitism to 1930s level than almost any other legacy media publication.