The American Press Is Destroying Itself

Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by JohnStrangeII on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:37AM (#23509659)

The article does have an ambiguous "and" in the relevant sentence but it's a bit of a far stretch to get from that to the paraphrase you provide.

Here is the literal quote from the article: "Calls to “dominate” marchers and ad-libbed speculations about Floyd’s “great day” looking down from heaven at Trump’s crisis management and new unemployment numbers (“only” 21 million out of work!) were pure gasoline at a tinderbox moment. The man seems determined to talk us into civil war."

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Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by Tenoke on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:43AM (#23509715)

I'd believe it if there weren't so many inaccurate reports claiming exactly that. His wording:

>"..ad-libbed speculations about Floyd’s “great day” looking down from heaven at Trump’s crisis management and new unemployment numbers.."

very much sounds like he thinks the same, and a majority of the readership familiar with the story are going to read it that way even if you can be extremely charitable and say that this isn't what he meant.

I know he is familiar with the reporting on this, so if he didn't mean it I doubt he'd be so ambigous in that statement.

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Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by JohnStrangeII on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:51AM (#23509777)

I think you're missing the point. It's an opinion piece (aka editorial, or blog post in this case) and not a news article. Of course, you can disagree with his interpretation.

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