The Media/Journalism Thread

[Vee]

 

From Nuzzi's (former) fiance, sex pest Ryan Lizza:

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Edited September 20, 2024 by Vee

[Vee]

 

Good work from Bouie, whose Times colleagues must resent him at this point:

 

[DRW50]

Hilarious.

 

[Vee]

Oliver Darcy broods over having to report on a friend. He should get better friends. Non-paywalled link here.

 

[Wendy]

Bouie showing receipts is TRUE journalism! But people, it is WHINING, not WHINGING. *cringe*

[DramatistDreamer]

Isn’t whinge a word that mainly British people use to essentially convey the same thing?

[Wendy]

I don't know. Not familiar with British slang, but then, I'm the one that also cringes when loose is used for lose, so take my post in the "get off my lawn!" spirit for which it's intended.

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[janea4old]

whinge and whine

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/03/on-whinge-and-whine.html

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/whinge-2019-07-22

[DramatistDreamer]

Thanks for providing the links. According to what these links say, whinge is actually an older word than whine. 

It’s not slang. I have heard people in academia use the word. Mainly in the U.K. though.

[Wendy]

Apparently, a special on MSNBC, "From Russia With Lev", is chock full of more Trump criminality.

Unfortunately, the very people that should watch this, have their heads up their backsides for Fat Felon:

 

[Vee]

Always craven and obsessed with the media world, Puck goes where most of Nuzzi's Beltway friends will not in digging deeper Into the scandal.

Edited September 21, 2024 by Vee

[janea4old]

In that Puck piece, they mention that the New York magazine editor Haskell "had been fending off a separate P.R. controversy regarding an article about cat owners and new mothers."
The Puck author didn't link to that but said we could google it.

Oh I vividly remember that horrid article, unfortunately, and I'm so glad Puck didn't link to it because it was horrific.

That article was in New York magazine's "the Cut" section and published August 12 -- at the time, I happened across it being slammed online, and read part of it, but it was so gross that, at the time, I couldn't stomach reading the whole thing. 

Back then, I didn't even notice who the publisher was, because I was so angry at the anonymous author. But the description today in Puck made realize where I had seen it, and I easily found it just now, and read it in full.

The Cut/ NewYork Magazine did a several-part series on pet ownership.  This particular article was anonymously written by a woman with a new baby who severely neglected her cat and hoped the cat might die.  I guess they thought it was trendy or edgy or something? It was really horrific.  At the bottom of the online version of that article: hundreds of angry comments from readers.


It's not relevant to the topic being discussed here of Olivia Nuzzi's lack of journalistic integrity. 

But it is relevant to the topic of the ickiness of nymag.com and its editor trying to clean up the magazine's messes.


The original article had an opening blurb paragraph in italics, explaining that it was "part of a series on the ethics of pet ownership". 
I see now that the magazine has since updated that blurb to add more sentences onto it, with their attempt to clean up the controversy by giving some indirect verification that the cat is okay but... still.  ewww.

Here are links to the original, and the version with attempt to fix it in the opening blurb.
TRIGGER warning: Don't read this if you want to stay sane.
Or just read and compare the opening blurbs and don't read the actual article.

August 12, 2024 original article --
version archived August 16 when it had 204 reader comments
https://archive.ph/909SE

Sept. 19, 2024 version with updated opening blurb (354 reader comments)
https://archive.is/0m9X5

Edited September 21, 2024 by janea4old

[Vee]

 

Non-paywalled link to the original article.

[DRW50]

@Vee Thanks. I saw some of her sycophants going around saying it wasn't an actual affair and the whole thing was being overblown, or who cares this is just typical of the industry, but if he is going around showing smut shots of her then it shows just how dangerous her actions were. And it shows just what a piece of trash RFK Jr is, 70 years old and still the toxic frat bro at heart. 

@janea4old That's horrible. Another example of the nihilist, slimy Gawker mentality in so many of those types of papers. The little I read about the article after you mentioned it sickened me.

[janea4old]