one really interesting thing about congestion pricing is that Trump basically said “I am killing congestion pricing right now”, got a friendly puff piece in the New York Post, and then every other media outlet went along with it even though it turned out he actually did not kill congestion pricing - ThreadSky

samd.bsky.social • 1 day ago

one really interesting thing about congestion pricing is that Trump basically said “I am killing congestion pricing right now”, got a friendly puff piece in the New York Post, and then every other media outlet went along with it even though it turned out he actually did not kill congestion pricing

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centristsisyphus.bsky.social•1 day ago

What was his authority to shut it down, did he even claim to have any?

tvanl.bsky.social•1 day ago

The authority he's claiming is that he's the king and his word is law.

centristsisyphus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, the whole States’ Rights thing has been memory-holed by Republicans.

ddza110.bsky.social•1 day ago

At the very least I am happy some tri state maga commuters will get an unexpected toll tomorrow morning.

unchi.org•11 hours ago

I’m actually a little surprised that the NYT has the most frank and honest headline I’ve seen about this yet.

nitishpahwa.com•1 day ago

the Daily News' lightning emoji … c'mon man

megaweapon5.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Daily News is usually pretty good for what it is, too.

nitishpahwa.com•1 day ago

yeah I know some reporters there and generally like them, makes this all the more ridiculous

jellibean.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The reporters don’t write the headlines. But they get blamed for them. It’s unfair.

jackjones23.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The only people who care about the NYC congestion pricing issue are people who live in the NYC area. And everyone there knows it hasn't been killed.

louisevans.bsky.social•13 hours ago

my fucking realtor told me "did you hear, they canceled it?" I had to tell her it was going to court!

reader, she LOVES it—makes driving through the zone much easier.

louisevans.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I don't blame her, you have to be SUCH a sicko to track outcomes.

theonekhan.bsky.social•1 day ago

People sure do believe it. My express bus ride home is taking forever like prior to the change.

themilfmag.net•1 day ago

why wd that b

ss-dc-transit.bsky.social•1 day ago

I also noticed this and it was honestly shocking. Even NYT misrepresented the facts in their initial headline.

seels24.bsky.social•1 day ago

With three people contributing!!!! Wtf?

foxfirefey.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Say the liiiiine

glaug-eldare.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why is he Mr. Boh?

darksparce.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is very out of the loop because he refuses to read anything besides headlines. He's in a way a victim of the low substance high viciousness culture he cultivated.
GOOD

100borders.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Just let everyone in Idaho and Nebraska keep believing that he got rid of it and we can move on and keep it

thebumpasaurus.bsky.social•1 day ago

The media likes donald trump and wants him to win

d3dgrrl.bsky.social•1 day ago

"journalism"

heszlein.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I think another thing which is interesting about congestion pricing is that Dictator Orange believes it should be decided on the federal level, while forced birth should be left to the states.

samd.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is a perfect example of how the media complies in advance by accepting what Trump says as truth even when it isn’t. I’m sure some people are going to be surprised when they get charged with the congestion fee today

blonicyouth.bsky.social•16 hours ago

None of these professional journalists were like “wait does he have authority to do that?” or any other questions at all. Is this because the job is only for rich kids now?

il-kwang.bsky.social•12 hours ago

TL;DR: yes

Been trying to get into the bottom rung of writing/journalism for couple years now since I wanted to transition (PhD in other field).

I don't apply to many jobs & internships if part-time, contracted, pay $16/hr in LA/DC/NYC, or only for current students in certain programs. Ha!

aboutthevote.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Never. 99% of the shit he does is either illegal or unconstitutional or both.

pokupoku.shop•1 day ago

And this is why high quality news organizations are so careful with their wording.

megaweapon5.bsky.social•1 day ago

None of them bothered to cover Hochul responding with what was basically “molon labe”?

samd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Many of them changed their headlines to “Trump moves to kill congestion pricing”, but publishing the original headline still reflects a fundamental failure to do their jobs

maxtropolitan.bsky.social•1 day ago

They did it for the clicks.

Treating it as a fait accompli gets more clicks because of the horror decent people feel and the smirk car commuters feel.

Yes, those two categories of people are a binary.

bam5.bsky.social•1 day ago

If this program survives, it will be in no small part because NY refused to comply in advance until a judge forces them to. This isn't a situation where a court may struggle to force Trump to save the program. If they uphold it, it lives.

robink.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Exactly, what more institutions should be doing

rudelyvangelder.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And this is ostensibly with actual humans still involved in the reporting chain :(

alania1985.bsky.social•17 minutes ago

Jfc the state of journalism is dire

seels24.bsky.social•1 day ago

I brought this up like 30 minutes after it happened to my government class. This is embarrassing reporting - maybe don’t write about politics if you don’t understand federalism and separation of powers at a 10th grade level.

hoobajoob.bsky.social•1 day ago

tbf the bloomberg headline is fine, since it is describing a future intent and not a completed action

coffeeaddict416.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This is the same disease where media outlets take what police say as gospel. It's not media's job to regurgitate press releases or quotes from the govt.

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