I have been begging everyone to stop knowingly sharing bad writing for about eight years or so
jon ben-menachem
When Greg and I both worked for WaPo Opinions, “liberal” senior editors would gleefully say, “Hate clicks are still clicks!” at the latest Marc Thiessen/Megan McArdle/Hugh Hewitt column.
(Greg and/or @jenrubin.bsky.social got the most traffic for whole dang website nearly everyday.)
Gillian Brockell
NYT opinion editors publish these types of things *because* progs will tweet angrily about it, which they interpret as, "this writer gets the right people angry, this writer is provocative, this writer gets talked about." Angry tweets only confirm/reward their initial instinct to publish this stuff.
Greg Sargent
The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
Alan Elrod
So @nytopinion.nytimes.com ?
Why the hell was Zaid Jilani, who has ZERO professional expertise or experience on abortion, given space to write about it in the New York Times?
It's not just wrong, it's insulting.
We've won doing everything he says not to do.
We don't polls. We have actual votes.
