Monday, May 26, 2025

A tale of two headlines

And subheads. George Conway called attention to the contrast in a Bluesky post. From The New York Times :

Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.”
And from The Independent :
Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the ’great late’ Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

President praised his administration’s efforts to end DEI programs and crack down on immigration while addressing West Point’s Class of 2025
One paper sanewashes; the other doesn’t.

[The Times devotes a single sentence to the stranger things: “Mr. Trump also rambled at times as he took shots at his opponents and told stories about his famous golf buddy Gary Player and how the real-estate developer William Levitt came to have a ‘trophy wife.’” His rambling story about Levitt, builder of segregated housing developments, took almost five minutes to tell. C-SPAN has the entire speech. There is, of course, no transcript at the White House website. In 2017 Trump told his Levitt story, with crude embellishments, at the National Boy Scout Jamboree.]

comments: 1

Sean Crawford said...

When, when, will the fifth estate stop sane washing? When? Will it take four long years? it will be a bit late by then. And when, if they refuse to "footnote," will they learn it's OK to spoon feed "fact checking" to the opposition, so that they can report that some one, somewhere, said the emperor has no truth? About when the glaciers melt, is my guess.