Snark isn’t journalism. It’s editorializing.
I said as much to “reporter” Reid J. Epstein, formerly with the Wall Street Journal, now covering Harris for the New York Times. 🤔 Article screenshots below. My commentary is in red.
This was the “clickbait headline.” The word “insisting” isn’t subtle. It implies dishonesty.
A ‘wink?” So… in the click-through (second) headline, the NYT calls out Harris for lying. This is not a subtle attempt to absolve THEIR GUY of his Pinocchios.
“Worried about overconfidence” is called wisdom. Here, Epstein implies Harris’s cautious underdog stance is a deceptively modest reaction to a razor-thin lead that remains within the margin of error. Would he advise Harris to spike the football on the one-yard line?
Email Reid J. Epstein through this link.
From the headline to the end line (underlined in blue above), Epstein’s article was filled with preconceived disdain for Harris. And this is not his first offense. I wrote this reply to Epstein’s reporting that Harris gave rambling replies in her CNN interview (with all evidence showing otherwise).
In my note sent to reid.epstein@nytimes.com
I wrote:
Your quip about Stephen Douglas at the conclusion of your “underdog” article is evidence of your disdain for Harris. What do you have against Democracy? Maybe your article should have mentioned that Hilary Clinton seemed unbeatable until she wasn’t. Trump has the wind of the Supreme Court, kowtowing Republicans, the world’s richest humans, and foreign saboteurs at his back. And he has a way of failing his way to the top. So yes, Harris is the underdog—until she wins and Trump concedes. The confidence she exuded defending Biden was her job as a loyal political pit bull. Like the famously dog-hating Trump, you don’t know anything about canines. And you are obviously not a cat lady, either.
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Mr Epstein may not understand that one goal of any campaign is to encourage people to vote. By reminding people that no election is won until the votes are in, people are called to register to vote and are urged to the essential nature of their participation by actually voting.
But like many writers, Writer Epstein appears to want to impress others not by fact-based opinion or even accurate complete historical information but by clever word-spinning. And he has the benefit of the New York Times to allow him the opportunity appear credible by say actually nothing.
Note, the purpose of good writing is to employ the written word to impact a large number of people for purposes of informing, entertaining, spurring discussion, bringing people to thought, and perhaps attending to other professional or personal goals. But the result, we hope, will contain substance which arrives at whatever is closer to truth. And without substance, even clever word-smithing will not produce truth.
Good work Shawn Shawn. When I read Reid I want to wretch. Or, wrestle him to the ground, as spellcheck suggests I say here. Epstein would do better digging ditches for trump followers hopes to be buried in when November rolls in. We’ve learned your shirt idea is spot on. Easy, efficient, effective, inexpensive, as best of all, exceedingly well received by folks who say ‘thank you’ and tell us we are brave. A rare, and occasional grumble under the bile infused breath of limited vocabulary, single word utterances. We appreciate and admire your work sir. Oh, and some ask where to get shirts. Cheers from Volusia!