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The NYT Interviews Itself To Malign Babylon Bee
LaCorte News ^ | 10/19/2020 | Penka Arsova

Posted on 10/19/2020 8:25:39 AM PDT by Zenyatta

The New York Times interviewed its own reporter for a report that criticized the satirical website The Babylon Bee.

The Times’ report is headlined “How The Babylon Bee, a Right-Wing Satire Site, Capitalizes on Confusion,” penned by reporter Kevin Roose. Roose describes the Bee as “a right-wing satire site that is often described as a conservative version of The Onion.” he further claims the site has a “habit of skirting the line between misinformation and satire” and that “it capitalizes on its audience’s confusion.”

(Excerpt) Read more at lacortenews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: babylonbee; newyorktimes
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"right on the reality-satire line" do they listen to themselves?
1 posted on 10/19/2020 8:25:39 AM PDT by Zenyatta
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To: Zenyatta

The Bee is over the target. :)


2 posted on 10/19/2020 8:26:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Zenyatta

The Babylon Bee is making the Ministry of Propaganda look ridiculous and they don’t like that.


3 posted on 10/19/2020 8:27:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cuban leaf
Libs...thinskinned babies....WHAAAAAAA! Still no comment about a failed entertainer holding up the decapitated head of our President in effigy....that's a-ok 👌
4 posted on 10/19/2020 8:30:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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5 posted on 10/19/2020 8:31:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Zenyatta

One think I know, it the writers over at The Bee are so good, they’re probably giddy with glee over this opportunity.


6 posted on 10/19/2020 8:33:25 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: Zenyatta
I can't believe you posted this. Everyone knows that the New York Times is a satire site, posing as a left-wing "newspaper". You're not supposed to take them seriously.
7 posted on 10/19/2020 8:34:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Zenyatta

Decades of crap shared as “Real news” from the Onion and they Left thought it was great how they’d share “Christians oppose masturbation, calling it rape” type stories as fact on social media.

Apparently no one is allowed to mock the Left.

Despots


8 posted on 10/19/2020 8:41:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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No wonder why the Babylon Bee created Not The Bee because some of the stories from the Left are Babylon Bee worthy but for REAL. 😏
9 posted on 10/19/2020 8:42:41 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Zenyatta

They want Babylon Bee to make a satire on the NY Times to get some more clicks.


10 posted on 10/19/2020 8:46:47 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-hiss-in-terror-as-acb-pulls-out-crucifix


11 posted on 10/19/2020 8:49:44 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Rome wasn't built in a day. All Hail the night shift!)
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To: Zenyatta

The headline itself sounds like it came from the Bee.


12 posted on 10/19/2020 8:50:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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In case anyone missed it, the New York Times also wrote a story today about the New York Post newspaper.

The NY Times claims that the NY Post reporter who wrote the story about Hunter Biden’s emails refused to sign his name to the Post story because it had not been completely verified.

So, the NY Times has enough reporters to write a critical story about a Conservative newspaper, but they do not have enough reporters to go out and actually investigate the accuracy of the Hunter Biden emails!

13 posted on 10/19/2020 8:51:29 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: BBQToadRibs

The Bee should frame this article and hang it proudly.
It’s their ‘trophy’, and a dam fine one at that.


14 posted on 10/19/2020 8:52:35 AM PDT by glasseye (Do you have to be a criminal before you apply or do they teach you that at Quantico?)
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To: Zenyatta

Liberals can not tolerate mockery.


15 posted on 10/19/2020 8:53:08 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: a fool in paradise
> Apparently no one is allowed to mock the Left.

To learn who rules over you, simply determine whom you are not permitted to criticize.

16 posted on 10/19/2020 8:54:07 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: Zenyatta

What’s a NYT?


17 posted on 10/19/2020 8:56:44 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Zenyatta

The NYT is appealing to the same idiots who get their news only through “The Daily Show”. That’s real news to leftists.


18 posted on 10/19/2020 9:02:02 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Zenyatta; cuban leaf

To see how utterly foolish the Times is by hitting at the Bee, let us reverse the scenario.

The Onion is left of center, but nobody would mistake it as ‘misinformation’. Nobody could possibly miss that all they do is satire.

So let us say that the Washington Times went after them for daring to satire. They’d be roundly ridiculed by the left.

The New York Times is a parody of a news organization, and they are joyless at that.


19 posted on 10/19/2020 9:07:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The NYT commits acts of violence with their words.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Lol. That’s pretty funny.


20 posted on 10/19/2020 9:08:43 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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