For those invested in deep NYT kremlinology, what can we infer from the disparate phrasing? Are they just writing their own bios and choosing their own titles?
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As a correspondent, she’s embedded. She’s stays in that location and reports the news that’s happening there. As a reporter, he’s assigned stories to follow from his editor and probably doesn’t focus on a single topic. The stilted phrasing implies she was not on that assignment between terms.
That’s a little at odds with how Swann describes himself “I am on the White House team covering the administration of President Donald J. Trump, whom I have reported on since 2015.“
Not really at odds with what I said, just more nuanced than 160 characters allows. Haberman is quasi-independent - her journalism is not exclusive to the times. Like “hey we like your work and would like to have that featured in our paper.” She also writes books and occasionally appears on CNN.
Swan is a more traditional employee of the times that is currently assigned to their political reporting team. He reports to an editor who greenlights stories for investigation.
Haberman doesn’t have that structure or oversight. I’m not saying she has zero structure/oversight at the times, but think of her more like a consultant vs middle manager in a corporate setting. They’re working toward the same goal within very different scopes of agency.
I’ve never loathed someone I’ve never met more than these two and Trump/Musk. Okay maybe McConnell. And Gym Jordan. Thune. Chaffetz. Paul Ryan. James Comey. Comer. Gosar. MTG. Boebert. Holy shit I could keep going…
Ha yeah. I kept going back and looking again, after making that joke. Going like "But maybe? No! I don't know.!" I still don't like it. Looks off. Rephrase.
I know this isn't what you're asking, but I note that to a later historian, Maggie's byline is going to be much more helpful. You'd have to have a couple of facts handy to place Jonathan's work in the correct place and time if you came across it in isolation.
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