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sharedvalues

(6,916 posts) Fri May 5, 2017, 05:18 PM May 2017

A criminally inaccurate headline about Trumpcare on THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NYT

I totally agree - criminally inaccurate.

Where is the statement that this is a tax cut bill for the very rich? Where is the statement about the number of people that will lose coverage?

Bye bye, NYT.

Link to tweet

headline is "Rich people benefit, the poor much less so".

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A criminally inaccurate headline about Trumpcare on THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NYT (Original Post) sharedvalues May 2017 OP

agree, how much less do they? juxtaposed May 2017 #1

I think they were employing snarky understatement. forgotmylogin May 2017 #2

Yeah, calling it "criminally inaccurate" is a wee bit of a hyperbole, I think Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #5

Look at the lower right "Promise Kept...." flotsam May 2017 #3

Sadly, the media are complicit. sharedvalues May 2017 #4

Seems to be a concerted effort to trash the Times lately melman May 2017 #6

I love Mother Jones. Propublica. Think Progress sharedvalues May 2017 #7

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)

1. agree, how much less do they?

Reply to sharedvalues (Original post)

Fri May 5, 2017, 05:21 PM

May 2017

forgotmylogin

(7,540 posts)

2. I think they were employing snarky understatement.

Reply to sharedvalues (Original post)

Fri May 5, 2017, 06:47 PM

May 2017

Perhaps they did this to entice you to read how much "less so".

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,229 posts)

5. Yeah, calling it "criminally inaccurate" is a wee bit of a hyperbole, I think

Reply to forgotmylogin (Reply #2)

Sat May 6, 2017, 05:55 PM

May 2017

I read it as, "Trump's plan overwhelmingly benefits the rich compared to the poor."

Which I felt was rather accurate, but who am I to argue?

flotsam

(3,268 posts)

3. Look at the lower right "Promise Kept...."

Reply to sharedvalues (Original post)

Sat May 6, 2017, 02:50 PM

May 2017

Did the asshole promise to get a bill half way through congress??? No-he promised he would repeal and replace and multiple times he promised to do it "on day one". All the median are treating this as a "victory" even if they then admit it probably can't pass the senate...

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)

4. Sadly, the media are complicit.

Reply to flotsam (Reply #3)

Sat May 6, 2017, 05:49 PM

May 2017

melman

(7,681 posts)

6. Seems to be a concerted effort to trash the Times lately

Reply to sharedvalues (Original post)

Sat May 6, 2017, 05:57 PM

May 2017

Weird.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)

7. I love Mother Jones. Propublica. Think Progress

Reply to melman (Reply #6)

Sat May 6, 2017, 06:00 PM

May 2017

Paul Krugman has been pointing since about 2006 out the damage done to America by the Times' bothsidesism.

The Times is a great paper. But they need to wake up about the new media reality where the GOP is willing to blatantly lie, and stop amplifying the lies.

Report the truth. Don't report what people say especially when those people are willing to lie.

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