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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://newsie.social/users/stevesilberman/statuses/112910359304343944">Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 01:39:44 JST</a><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman" title="stevesilberman@newsie.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/83820-48-20230102075453.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Steve Silberman" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Steve Silberman</a></section><article><p>The New Yorker's Clare Malone did a lot of solid reporting for her story on RFK Jr., and the bear story is only a minor element. But she did her readers a disservice by quoting an anonymous source describing RFK Jr's litany of dangerous lies about vaccines and autism as "persuasive and nimble," while calling his disinformation "errors," as if they were careless oversights. Not helpful. <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3479253#notice-6837228">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-06T01:39:44+09:00" title="Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 01:39:44 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/112910359304343944" rel="external" title="Sent from newsie.social via ActivityPub">newsie.social</a></span></span><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/112910359304343944">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: media.newyorker.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign">What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?</a></h5><div> from <span>Clare Malone</span></div></header><div>The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3004665">Kennedy’s previous work for the magazine was sometimes problematic. “He would turn in these manuscripts, and it’s barely exaggerating to say, like, eighty to ninety per cent of the facts would be incorrect, even the simple ones,” Dana said. “It’s because he’s not a journalist. He’s a lawyer. He’s more about making arguments than about trying to communicate the truth.” The former friend remembered attending a dinner party with Kennedy and finding his case against vaccines persuasive and nimble, even though the former friend knew that the facts were wrong. “People think he’s an idiot —he’s not an idiot,” the person said. But the vaccine story for Rolling Stone was riddled with errors. Eric Bates, an editor at the magazine, tried to slow-roll the piece, but Wenner pushed it through. (Wenner said that, if he had known that the piece was “flawed that deeply,” he wouldn't have published it.)</a></label><br><a href="https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/910/358/071/540/813/original/ae1c6f06986ae2e9.jpeg" rel="external">https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/910/358/071/540/813/original/ae1c6f06986ae2e9.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 01:39:44 JST Steve Silberman
The New Yorker's Clare Malone did a lot of solid reporting for her story on RFK Jr., and the bear story is only a minor element. But she did her readers a disservice by quoting an anonymous source describing RFK Jr's litany of dangerous lies about vaccines and autism as "persuasive and nimble," while calling his disinformation "errors," as if they were careless oversights. Not helpful. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign
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2. Kennedy’s previous work for the magazine was sometimes problematic. “He would turn in these manuscripts, and it’s barely exaggerating to say, like, eighty to ninety per cent of the facts would be incorrect, even the simple ones,” Dana said. “It’s because he’s not a journalist. He’s a lawyer. He’s more about making arguments than about trying to communicate the truth.” The former friend remembered attending a dinner party with Kennedy and finding his case against vaccines persuasive and nimble, even though the former friend knew that the facts were wrong. “People think he’s an idiot —he’s not an idiot,” the person said. But the vaccine story for Rolling Stone was riddled with errors. Eric Bates, an editor at the magazine, tried to slow-roll the piece, but Wenner pushed it through. (Wenner said that, if he had known that the piece was “flawed that deeply,” he wouldn't have published it.)
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