My sense is that this bolder framing may correlate w what we’re seeing at Rep town halls, growing protests, and letters of warning from various associations. Journos’ decisions are made by people who exist *in the social world* and who thus write headlines based on that changing context.
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Sam Wang
Did someone replace the headline writer at @nytimes.com with a person who understands current events?
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See: WMDs in Iraq that weren’t there
See also: 1930s coverage of Hitler who “probably didn’t mean all the things he was saying”