NYT Changes Headline That Originally Said 'Not Everyone Wants to Hear About' Biden's Grief Over Son

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I unsubscribed to the NYT a long time ago (before the crap on Hillary Emails) The NYT is a very pro TFG publication that worked hard to elect TFG by pushing the stupid Hilary email story long after it was clear that this story was bogus. The assholes at the NYT are assholes and here is a good example of the NYT going out of its way to attack Joe Biden

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The New York Times on Saturday changed a headline on an article about President Joe Biden as Twitter users reacted to the phrasing in a variety of mostly negative ways.

The original headline “Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It” was on a Katie Rogers article about the president expressing his grief and facing some criticism over discussing his lost son while visiting with the families grieving the deaths of United States servicemembers in the terror attack in Kabul.

The new version of the headline on the article reads: “In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That’s Guided His Presidency.”

The original faced some negative reactions for its phrasing. After it was changed, some pointed out the change, including Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher.

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No one should pay attention to these assholes

[JohnSJ]

1. I dropped the NY Times several years ago, but this really shows what kind of paper it has become

If I had a bird I wouldn’t use that paper to line its cage

[Skittles]

2. that is just plain indecent

and I would certainly feel that way if they were referring to a republican, too

[gratuitous]

3. Sounds legit

I mean, we all remember how much the major media gave the former guy shit about his total disdain for veterans, whether in the commemoration of the World War I centenary (suckers and losers) or his attacking the Khan family when Kizr told the truth that the former guy and his family had sacrificed NOTHING for the United States.

Oh, wait. Shit, I forgot!

The major media didn't say jack shit about the former guy and the way he dissed veterans. Looks like the Times doesn't want to hear anything about military families and their losses in service to the country. Nobody wants to hear about that, especially not from a Democrat!

[dchill]

4. Shitheels is as shitheels does.

My mama always used to say.

[Hugin]

5. A Sharpie line can be drawn between a certain day glo hippo's fit last week...

that the hurricane was getting more press than Afghanistan and what first appeared in the NYT.

I'll say it again. Ignore him at your peril. He is still very much active pulling his dirty ropes via his incessant threats and perfect phone calls.

[RockRaven]

6. NYT's editorial staff, and editorial content, is fucking trash...

The fact they have some good investigative reporters or reporters with good connections/sources in certain fields, a broad enough subscriber base to still cover things like arts/culture which other papers have dropped for financial reasons, and a catchy slogan... this does not make them a good newspaper. It only means that they are shitty in different ways than other smaller papers.

[kysrsoze]

7. Did they just add Piers Morgan to their editorial staff?

[Moebym]

8. Disgusting

I'm still not quite over the media's successful attempt at bringing Biden down a notch with its overwhelmingly negative 24/7 Afghanistan coverage, but to criticize a still-grieving father for trying to connect with military families that have lost loved ones of their own by bringing up his own experience with loss is beneath the NYT.

And even if it were true that some families had expressed the opinion that Biden should have spent more time on their losses than his own, that headline was incredibly insensitive to him.

[Haggard Celine]

9. Fuck the NYT!

And fuck their $1 a week online subscriptions that they advertise. There isn't enough interesting content to justify spending even that trivial sum. There are several other papers I could name that cover national issues better, papers that are cheaper and with better writers. I don't even mind that their articles are behind a paywall, anymore. I don't feel like I'm missing a thing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. 'Cruel on purpose': Americans rage at Times writer who claims Biden grieves his family too much

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[Haggard Celine]

20. I'm glad people are saying something.

Joe Biden is a good man, and he's just trying to tell those families that he understands their grief and he has felt much of what they're feeling. To attack him for trying to connect with grieving military families is a low blow. But hey, it's all about attracting attention and selling those papers, right?

[The Blue Flower]

10. Cancelled it a couple of days ago

$1/week is too much to pay for garbage

[Baitball Blogger]

11. You know, NYT, there are just some things that you hear, that you just have to

assign to stupidity. If you're going to write such an article, you should have written it based on the incredible changes in our society where people have lost the ability to empathize with other people's trauma and pain.

You also should have gone out of your way to find out exactly who is expressing this sentiment. Are they Republicans? Seriously, why would you put them in the same category as everyone else? Why use their opinions as a "general opinion?" It's like throwing a bucket of poison into a clean well of water and claiming the well is undrinkable. Well, fuck, it was safe to drink before someone threw a bucket of water into the well, wasn't it? The story should have been, who the fuck threw the bucket of poison into the well?

I'll tell you how you should have responded. This is what I did when I heard someone voice a stupid opinion: Six months after 9/11 I heard a comment from a friend that shocked me. She was a woman that had a lot going on in her life. One of these power lunch kind of women, capable of running a business, but sidelined by the demands of raising a family. And all too often, things would come out of her mouth that would shock me. Like when she said she was over all the 9/11 reports about the victims and the disaster in general. this was six months after the disaster! She rationalized that she didn't have anyone that was harmed on 9/11 and it just wasn't something that was part of her life and she was ready to move on.

You know, this year will mark the twentieth year of that attack, and I have NEVER read any article that mentioned this sentiment, even though I know she was probably not the only one that shared it. And you know why I never read it? Because people say stupid things and sometimes the best thing you can do is ignore them, since, in the big picture, those sentiments are inappropriate. PERIOD.

[Midnight Writer]

12. I became disgusted with the NYT when they pushed the Whitewater "scandal".

Front page headlines, day after day, and it all turned out to be nothing.

Not even RW Special Prosecutor Ken Starr could find anything, after years of investigations costing million of dollars.

[Tomconroy]

13. Paper went to hell when Red Smith died!

[moondust]

14. In 2015 TFG had a long history

of what many would consider behaviors bad enough to disqualify him from holding public office: money laundering, Russia connections, white supremacy, mistreatment of women and minorities, no prior public service, lifelong malignant narcissistic behavior, etc. The NYT--TFG's hometown paper--likely knew about much of it and could have easily found out more by asking around. They could have done their duty to investigate and inform/warn voters about him ahead of the 2016 primaries. I'm not aware of them doing any of that, possibly because NYT management knew how corrupt he was and assumed him being in the WH would lead to big profits for them and perhaps their pals nearby on Wall Street.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. The New York Times is so broken, they literally cannot process a president who *isn't* a manipulativ

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[PatSeg]

17. I think she is trying to make her name known

by being controversial. She has already challenged Psaki during press briefings in ways that resemble Fox News.

Hey it worked. I now know who Katie Rogers is, but I know who Peter Doocy is as well. That might not be the kind of recognition she wants, unless she's auditioning for Fox.

[LAS14]

16. The NYT was very pro TFG?????????? nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. The NYT gave far too much coverage to the Hillary email and Habberman is TFG fan