Tuesday Tweets

These next few tweets go to a longstanding problem with the New York Times and its place in the ecosystem. As many including Josh Marshall have observed, the NYT has a way of coming late to a story and downplaying the work that came before. Because of the paper's standing, from that point on, it's "as reported by the New York Times."

in case i wasn't clear: THIS VERY NYT STORY rips off a Vox story, which the Times merely alludes to airily in passing, a dozen or more paragraphs in, without saying THIS IS THE EXACT SAME STORY. O the irony. https://t.co/ZYGFvSiubC

— Marjorie Ingall (@MarjorieIngall) February 15, 2020

here's one of the more egregious examples I know of but there are tons.

Buzzfeed (Apr 7): https://t.co/R1wmd8YjWq
NYT (Apr 21) https://t.co/Itm31NcCsF

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 15, 2020

My impression is that the conservative think tank world initially built up Hanson as a deep thinker assuming he'd be useful for moving the Overton Window, Unfortunately, Hanson has been too big of a attention junkie/clown to be effective.

I'm going to retweet this every time @NoahHaber starts on about economists being smarter than epidemiologists. https://t.co/JmnyXmpmKO

— George Savva (@georgemsavva) February 15, 2020

In 1632, Rasputin would have been considered mildly unlucky.

Life came with challenges back in 1632.
“Kil’d by several accidents” seems a tough way to buy it. https://t.co/T6z5rsLjQs

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 15, 2020

I know I'm not supposed to call Robin Hanson creepy because that would be mean. How about this? Can I call this creepy?

Great lede and great story by @JamesVGrimaldi, Brody Mullins and @johndmckinnon https://t.co/kQzSQRcj5F pic.twitter.com/wnVl4XxS0Y

— Joe Palazzolo (@joe_palazzolo) February 13, 2020

Could Bernie's branding help him in the primaries but hurt him in the general?

Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist https://t.co/VGxWuWGeAX

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 13, 2020

Worth a look.

"It works just like Google Trends, the popular tool that displays and compares terms that people are searching for with Google, except that MuckRack Trends looks only at news articles." https://t.co/8C60scF7CI Pretty useful for people in my business.

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) February 14, 2020

As we've been pointing out for the past decade, the black and white, us vs them worldview of the education reform movement left it vulnerable to corruption.

In a damning audit, Indiana calls on two virtual schools to repay $85 million in misspent state funds https://t.co/JgBYFdc29d

— Jersey Jazzman (@jerseyjazzman) February 13, 2020

NEW: Arizona charter school principal pleads guilty in $2.5 million enrollment scheme https://t.co/d2mW8Z3Zwz via @azcentral

— Craig Harris (@charrisazrep) February 14, 2020

'“We remain neutral on geopolitical disputes and make every effort to objectively display disputed areas,” Russell said in the statement. “In countries where we have local versions of Google Maps, we follow local legislation when displaying names and borders.”'

Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking https://t.co/siDhFbGuWh

— Paul Staniland (@pstanpolitics) February 14, 2020

My favorites are the pundits who go from one set of absolute certainties to another completely contradictory set without the slightest pause for doubt, humility or reflection.

Lots of potential explanations for it, but maybe worth noting: On twitter I see tons of political scientists (and others) confidently stating which dem candidates are more or less electable. In offline conversations, the political scientists I talk to are far more uncertain.

— Andrew Little (@anthlittle) February 13, 2020





I'm not saying I'd never use the phrase "surge to third place in New Hampshire" unironically, but I promise to feel bad about myself if I do. https://t.co/BTImXfNsxb

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) February 13, 2020

 

I think that captures it. And there's an impatience that they're fighting each other - even though that's what a primary is - because people want to move on to running against Trump.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 11, 2020