re: #126 JordanRules

The other night when some were complaining about the NYT and had examples of bad stories your retort was that the approach to assessing them was wrong in that the good stories were being ignored.

A comedic Twitter account (in addition to others, some actually in the media, who shouldn’t have sent it out) sends out a bad tweet and you seem to hold him to a higher standard than the NYT and just discount any entertainment folks may get out of it as if he was already an idiot and a hack prior to that tweet a week ago. That’s why my question was phrased the way it was and we didn’t need a ‘better’ one.

As I mentioned, others also pointed out the non-story and they might still go there for a snark bite or two.

One thing I like about this site is that people generally don’t go around shitting on other people’s entertainment preferences even if they’re not sophisticated or one’s particular taste.

The NYT is not a monolith. It consists of many people of different opinions and ways. So condemning the whole of the NYT for what some of its journalists write in clearly marked opinion pieces is silly, even if it has become commonplace. I have no problem with dismissing the journalists in question. They are not the whole of the NYT.

T.E.A. Pain(e) is one person so yes, the standard is different since the opinions/actions of one person are not easily separable. Just as I can say “David Brooks is a dishonest hack”, so I can say “Tea Pain is a dishonest hack”.

As for entertainment preferences, everyone is entitled to theirs. That was hardly the point. Just as I said, folks are free to post from any sources they want, just as other folks are free to point out that those sources may stink.