The New York Times Can't Bring Itself To Hold The USOC Accountable
In my time as a journalist, stories about child abuse have always been the one genre that everyone, even internet…
Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes
Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it was—footage…
This New York Times Profile Of Serena Williams Is A Press Release For Her TV Show
The sort of celebrity profile that opens with an anecdote set in a restaurant or hotel room is more or less always bad,…
New York Times Op-Ed: All This Protective Netting Is Ruining My Game
As of this year, all 30 MLB teams now have protective netting that extends at least to the ends of the dugouts, a…
David Brooks Seems Extremely Confused (About Amphibians)
Amphibians, as every little kid knows, are born in water, as larvae, breathing water through gills. Later they undergo…
Someone Explain To Me The Alien Alloys Before I Fucking Explode
Hello, hi, yes, hello. We’ve all seen this, right? This story in the New York Fucking Times about the Pentagon’s $22…
NYT Op-Ed: The Real Villains Are Those Who Doubt The Motives Of Anonymous NFL Executives
If there was one thing the ongoing Colin Kaepernick unemployment saga really needed, it was a flaccid, incomprehensibly…
David Brooks: My Judgment Is Appallingly Bad, Therefore Listen To Me
In the abstract, David Brooks’s choice to begin today’s Times column about the assorted Trump/Russia investigations…
I Can't Decide What To Get David Brooks For His Wedding
I mean obviously the first and most important point is: Mazel tov! After a few years of harrowing personal crisis for…
New York Times Public Editor: What's With All These Interesting Stories Where The Box Scores Should Be?
New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote an exceptionally stupid column this weekend criticizing the newspaper’s…
The New York Times Is Not Built For This
On Sunday, Frank Bruni dedicated his New York Times op-ed column to the way Donald Trump eats steak. This is not the…
No, We Definitely Do Want To Take Billionaires' Money
Can you imagine telling an inequality-wracked world that we might not want to take away a billionaire’s money? Absurd.…
How "Fake News" Became Meaningless
Let’s talk about fake news. Are you excited? I am! (Actually I’m not. That claim was fake news.)
Newspaper Scientists Engineer Story That Will Make Everyone Self-Righteously Angry
It’s easy to write a story that pisses off one or two demographics. But how can you piss off every demographic…
Who Lost The White House?
After a long, ugly, and immensely stupid presidential election, a modest plurality of a little more than half of…
Here's How (Some) New York Times Staffers Are Voting
Like many major news organizations, the New York Times has a policy that forbids its writers and editors from publicly…
New York Times Endorses Monarchy
In a move much anticipated by members of the royal court, the Kingdom of the New York Times has elevated a prince of…
Donald Trump Beat The Press
On Saturday, as Republicans lined up to denounce Donald Trump and the pussy-grabbing candidate brooded in his tower,…
How Many Sentences Does It Take To Know David Brooks Has Written A Bad Column?
What number of sentences do you guess is sufficient to positively say that David Brooks has failed in the stated…
The New York Times Doesn't Know What Aleppo Is, Either
Everyone agrees that Gary Johnson, who is pretending to be an actual candidate for the presidency under the banner of…