"Positioned directly next to each other, as they were on the Times site, they were quickly seen as a microcosm of What the Hell is Wrong with Media Today. 'This arrangement and editorial gloss may stand for, capture, the journalism about the entire campaign,' noted Josh Marshall, the founder of Talking Points Memo."

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A headline claiming (mendaciously) that Harris is refusing to make her policies clear to media read:

"In interviews, Kamala Harris continues to bob and weave."

"The other, on a story about Trump’s alarming language about migrants as carriers of supposedly impure bloodlines and genes read: In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics."

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"Commenting on the second headline, the author Stuart Stevens, who writes about how democracies turn into autocracies, suggested: 'These two headlines should be studied in journalism classes for decades.'"

Sullivan reports that she responded (on Twitter/X) to Stevens, saying, "Not a bad idea," and got a snarky and supercilious (my words) reply from young whippersnapper (my words) Michael Barbaro.

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Barbaro co-hosts New York Times' Daily podcast. He responded to Sullivan's agreement with Stevens:

"“Care to explain what the issue is with these headlines?”

As she suggests, Barbaro knows full well what's wrong with them. But she explains anyway so that more of us can open our eyes and see what's going on.

The Harris headline is "a negative headline over a dubious story." It's the Times continuing its ugly attacks on Harris, in short.

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"But juxtapose it with the Trump headline, which takes a hate-filled trope and treats it like some sort of lofty intellectual interest.

That headline, wrote Stevens, 'could apply to an article about a Nobel prize winner in genetic studies.'”

Sullivan cites Kevin Kruse:

"Historians: He’s a fascist. Political scientists: He’s a fascist. His own aides: He’s a fascist. The NYT: He shows a wistful longing for a bygone era of global politics."

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And as she concludes, pointing to what Kevin Kruse says,

"That, in essence, is the issue with these headlines."

Barbaro's snarky response to Sullivan puts on full display all over again the morally vacuous arrogance that is the heart of the matter in the elite media's eschewal of honest reporting on the threat a political party now turned full fascist poses to American democracy.

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There's an elitist, totally unearned, whiff of moral superiority on the above-the-fray pretenses of many journalists at NYT and elsewhere in the corporate media. They want to dictate to the rest of us the "correct" (both-sideist) way to view moral issues regarding which they themselves refuse to take sides even when one side threatens to unravel the entire social fabric. Then they want to snark and preen and posture when called to accountability.

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