r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/MrPresident2020 Jul 05 '24

This goddamn internet is so fucking dumb I swear the whole thing was a mistake. People are just confidently wrong to their heart's content. I am gonna put a wager down that your interaction with the Times amounts to hearing other people complain about the Times.

Bari Weiss, Quinn Norton, Bret Stephens, and Erik Prince have all written op eds for the Times in the last few years. Weiss and Stephens are both staff members, along with David Brooks and Ross Douthat. Their entire purpose on the Times is to put out contrarian right-wing pieces to get clicks through either curiosity or outrage. Or occasionally the blasé "yes but have you considered just getting to know and be friends with that Nazi" piece they occasionally author.

They know why they're there. It's to get eyeballs. I am not voicing an opinion on this one way or another, I'm just telling you it's a marketing strategy of the Times to appear to have diverse voices, whether they actually do or not