Brad DeLong on Substack: "Journamalism: Grave moral fault rests on everybody who contributes their money and their talent to the New York Times. Just saying: Parker Molloy: This NYT Headline About Student Loan Forgiveness is an Exercise in the Paper's Absurdity: ‘On Wednesday, The New York Times reporte…"

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Journamalism: Grave moral fault rests on everybody who contributes their money and their talent to the New York Times. Just saying:

Parker Molloy: This NYT Headline About Student Loan Forgiveness is an Exercise in the Paper's Absurdity: ‘On Wednesday, The New York Times reported on President Joe Biden’s latest round of student loan forgiveness. “Biden Cancels $1.2 Billion in Student Loan Debt for 150,000 Borrowers,” read the headline, simply stating the facts. The subheadline was equally neutral-yet-informative, letting readers know that the administration “has canceled $138 billion of student debt for nearly 3.9 million borrowers.”… But then the paper changed the headline <twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/17604657214… to “A Beleaguered Biden Chips Away at Student Loan Debt, Bit by Bit,” managing to take a neutral headline and turn it into a standard and here’s why this is bad for Biden piece… <readtpa.com/p/this-nyt-headline-about-s…>

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This NYT Headline About Student Loan Forgiveness is an Exercise in the Paper's Absurdity

How a simple headline about student debt relief turned into a prime example of Times editorialization.

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