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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Another brutally honest assessment in the subject line of a DNC fund-raising email: "You deserve an explanation." Boy, do I ever.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Not sure this is the best subject line for the Biden campaign fund-raising efforts today: "Trump is closer than ever to retaking power." And why is that?

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Can I question the Times news judgment? Was a Trumped up House hearing really the most important thing that happened Wednesday inn the world? How would the Times have covered the story if it were the president of Fordham (and not Columbia) on the hot seat?

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

I don't think it makes much of a difference politically because swing voters in the Milwaukee suburbs are unlikely to be avid Times readers. But if you read the Times headlines, Trump's new abortion position is based on deep-seated conviction while Biden's student loan relief is pure politics.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Why I love LinkedIn. With job recommendations like this (tailored expressly for me), I can really build a great career in the next 15 or 20 years.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Shades of Ralph Nader in Florida in 2000: The Ron DeSantis vote could prevent Nikki Haley from winning all-important Vermont.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Always trust the NY Times to confront society's most pressing problems. This one is also highlighted on the Times' web home page:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Kudos to the NY Times for featuring a solution to a problem that I suspect is not on anyone's top 100 list of quandaries.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Tears came to my eyes reading about the bravery of the president of the Heritage Foundation (Kevin Roberts) as he recounted his trip to Davos (presumably he flew coach) in a fund-raising email:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

In these troubling times, this is what I look to the New York Times for:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Memo to NY Times' seemingly clueless copy desk: The event in Iowa on Monday night is not a primary despite your headline on the Times home page.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Unveiled: Meryl Gordon's new biography of Perle Mesta. Coming to a bookstore near you in November:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Will the Times ever let this story go? I fear I may be condemned to reading hot takes on Claudine Gay in 2039.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

C'mon NY Times. This is a late entry in the 2023 Euphemism for Tyranny Sweepstakes. Notice how evasively the Times Travel describes what's going on in Hong Kong since the crackdown on freedom

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

There's a wonderful appreciation of North Pole scammer Frederick Cook by Allegra Rosenberg in the New York Times. I have to proudly add that my con-man great-uncle Freeman Bernstein (whom I wrote about in my bio "Hustling Hitler") offered Cook $100,000 to grace the vaudeville stage in 1909.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

My visual statement against third-party gambits that will throw the election to Trump.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

My nomination for the most obvious headline of 2023:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

How not to sell a story. The New York Times tells me that its feature on Kamala Harris is a "32-minute read." Talk about discouraging me from starting it.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Easiest question that I have been asked all year: "Real quick- will you stand with me?" That's the subject line in a Ted Cruz fund-raising email.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Worst cause-group headline of the week. Thought Leaders? C'mon.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

What's wrong with ex-Twitter in one image:

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

My idea of a perfectly constructed poll with scientifically valid results. Below is the question that Emily's List sent to its email list today. I can't wait until they release the results since this might be evidence of the long-awaited DeSantis surge.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

As a New York Times reader, I am thrilled at their news judgment that their own horserace poll (15 months before the election) is the biggest news story in the world as indicated by their home page. Just as yesterday's lead-the-paper poll was the biggest news story at the end of July.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

We are officially in the dog days of summer, as far as news is concerned, when the big headline on the NY Times website is a poll. A national poll of Republicans nearly six months before the Iowa caucuses.

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Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

In a shocking development, the Murdoch-owned NY Post discovers that there are (smelling salts, please) brothels and sex workers in New York. Unimaginable.

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