New York Times Pitchbot: Symbols of hatred have become far too common in American public life...

[demmiblue]

Symbols of hatred have become far too common in American public life, whether it’s white hoods and swastikas on the right or Ukrainian flags and KN95 masks on the left.

Link to tweet

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Love the pitch bot! Nt

[SharonAnn]

2. Ukrainian flags and K95 masks are symbols of hatred? I don't think so.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. I'm having a hard time trying to figure that one out, too. nt

[NutmegYankee]

13. Twitter account that mocks NYT.

Based on their stupid both siderism editorials of late.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. Yes, *now* I understand. Like I said below, my irony/sarcasm

detectors have become badly uncalibrated these days.

[blogslug]

6. It's a satire account that targets the bothersiderism and general terribleness of the NYT

[FakeNoose]

11. But see? Both sides are doing it, that's the point

No of course it's not "both sides are doing it." It's the Repukes/conservatives getting to have it both ways whenever NYT push out their sleazy RW-slanted editorials.

[Nictuku]

20. I think the site is satiric?

It uses a bot to compare left to right in headlines to show how ridiculous "whataboutism" is.

Correct me if I'm wrong? That is my gleaning of it.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. How are Ukrainian flags and KN95 masks symbols of hate? White hoods and swastikas, yes.

[Ocelot II]

14. The tweet is satirizing the bothsiderisms of the NYT.

[lame54]

18. Not very well - it's easy to miss

[Ocelot II]

19. I thought it was pretty obvious.

[CurtEastPoint]

21. Ditto. And no, it was not 'obvious.'

[FreepFryer]

5. IRONY ALERT - the pitchbot specializes in horrifyingly plausible false equivalencies of NYTimes' ilk

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Okay, *that* I'll buy. (My sarcasm/irony meter has become badly uncalibrated.) nt

[BlueGreenLady]

8. The False Equivalency is astounding here.

Comparing Republican symbols of White Nationalist bigotry and Nazi anti-Semitic hatred to Democratic symbols for public health safety measures and support of a country suffering invasion and genocide is beyond belief. Both Sides Don't.
This is like comparing apples to ballistic missiles. Both can be launched but they have extremely different motives and consequences.

[Ocelot II]

15. It's satire.

[BlueGreenLady]

17. Thank you for pointing that out.

As I am not familiar with the NYTimes Pitchbot I did not realize that it was an attempt to be humorous.
I almost alerted on it, but thought it should stand as a great example of both-siderism.

[haele]

9. Pitchbot always has the most ridiculously satirical headlines.

"Gas prices are going down - how this is a reflection of Biden's failure to understand modern American Business..."

Unfortunately, real NYT editorials are too often more ridiculous than Pitchbot.

Haele

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

10. The OP might want to include

The purpose of this account since it is clearly being taken the wrong way already.

[keithbvadu2]

12. I had never seen Pitchbot before so I figured it was real bullshit from Fox/right wing sources.

I had never seen Pitchbot before so I figured it was real bullshit from Fox/right wing sources.

[Hortensis]

22. In a critical election year, the NYT's purpose is much the same. nt

[Hortensis]

23. Pitchbot today commenting on NYT's opinion page:

Link to tweet

Same problem as The Onion, though. How to tell it from the real thing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. The NYT Pitchbot is a project of DougJ of the Balloon Juice blog

https://www.balloon-juice.com/author/dougj/

though DougJ rarely posts there now. It's a good blog to follow.

[demmiblue]

25. Thanks for the link!

I was wondering who was behind that Twitter account.

Edit:

Scrolling through, and I came to this:



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