The New York Times ran into a buzz saw in the process of attacking one of President-elect Trump’s bold new cabinet choices.
The widely known – and widely discredited – paper was eager to “fact-check” RFK Jr. on his “crazy” idea to make America healthy again. Here is what it came up with:
Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version. But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.
Ben Domenech of The Spectator summed it up best, “RFK Jr. Is wrong except for the fact that he is exactly technically correct.”
True. Yet, the lengthy NY Times story has two bylines, so TWO authors and presumably two editors likely signed off on it.
America is going to need more doctors who specialize in TDS to figure out how to fix these people’s trauma, but in the meantime, maybe they shouldn’t be journalists. Just a thought.
The “fact-check” may be the dumbest paragraph ever written. X users and fellow journalists with a shred of common sense definitely agree.
The “health industry” and its press allies being a parody unto themselves is how you got RFK Jr.
“He’s wrong about the ingredients list except these four other chemicals. Sixteen Pinocchios.” https://t.co/2AImJvmSfX
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 17, 2024
The rise of “fact checks” has corresponded almost exactly with the fall of mainstream journalism.
Picky, slanted, cute, self-righteous, and very often incorrect.
A cluster of traits I shun in life. The worst.
But watch them keep it up. https://t.co/KMa1pBIHfn
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) November 17, 2024
