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His henchman are now running the paper, and are likely to steer the Post into a Trump-subservient, Tory-branded  retreat. 

Dan Froomkin at Presswatchers clues us in to what to expect.  Owner Bezos installed Murdoch toady Will Lewis, whose record is squalid to say the least, as publisher. OK, could we stop deluding ourselves that mogul ownership doesn’t influence editorial coverage?

Bezos refuses to adquately fund the Post, and therefore Lewis presided over the disastrous buy-outs of last fall, which crippled the editorial staff.

Lewis has wasted no time in “unceremoniously driving out executive editor Sally Buzbee and replacing her with two additional white male former Murdoch henchmen.” 

Question:  Why are Murdoch-ites considered qualified to run a legitimate, mainstream news organization?  And why does America need to provide employment opportunities for right-wing British media executives?

The overfed Speaker Johnson feasts on our democracy while children in Gaza starve.

“And I would say to Speaker Johnson that when you attend your fundraising dinners with your billionaire friends, and you eat your fine steaks and your lobsters and your other wonderful food, please remember these pictures from Gaza.”

She is engaged in obstruction of justice in the service of election interference, as she works to ensure that the electorate will not be able to weigh the likely guilty verdict that Trump would suffer were he tried.

Utterly indifferent to any other consideration than protecting Trump, she wants to give Trump as much space as he needs to vent his ever-more outrageous and inflammatory claims of victimhood.

It will make it that much easier to overturn democracy in America, as they will simply put a pen in his hand and direct hm to sign one authoritarian directive after another.

Of course she shouts down the host. Of course she won’t answer the questions.

“Imagine a beautiful city where a centrally located two-bedroom apartment can cost you as little as $600 a month. For many US policymakers, it’s a pipe dream. And yet in Vienna, it’s a reality.”

Kirsty Lang reports in the Guardian.

They also bussed students to the Metropolitan Opera House for special matineess–and with top artistic personnel.

Why are we not surprised that Amy Coney Barrett’s husband, Jesse Barrett, is defending Fox  Corp., parent to Fox”News” in yet another defamation lawsuit?

You’d think if he had any respect for decency or propriety that he wouldn’t get near something like this.

And you’d think that Justice Barrett would stop refusing to let us know who her husband’s clients are, so, like, we could know when she should be recusing herself?

Alito’s refusal to recuse and Roberts’ apparent endorsement of that malfeasance should be the last straw. This is a majority that is contemptuous of this country and won’t even make the most perfunctory attempts to disguise that fact.

Long-time NYT editor and reporter Marilyn Bender published her book The Beautiful People in 1967, in which she kept close watch on the fashion industry, the fashion journalism industry, and the fashion celebrity industry. I don’t have the book in front of me, but she mentions how Times brass sent out a memo saying they wanted the Times to be not just needed but also loved and that was their rationale for juicing up the soft celebrity coverage.  She was particularly highlighting the emerging coverage of high-consuming elite women who were now increasingly lionized for their fashion consumption.

There’s a throughline between this and the Times’ ruinous attempt to propitiate Republican partisans at the expense of the paper’s own reputation–let alone the harm done to the public interest.

Jamison Foser writes that “Criticized for treating unequal things as equal, for blurring asymmetries between candidates, the Times insists that to do otherwise would cause the paper to lose the trust of Republicans, who already do not trust the Times and never will, which means the Times just keeps lurching rightward to appeal to people who keep moving further and further away from it.”

It’s again a question of the Times importuning in the vain hope of being all things to all people–an impossible goal.