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Ah, it’s the important stuff.
Titans of industry are in China this week with Donald Trump to meet with the most powerful man in the world, Xi Jinping. Something is afoot. Maybe. I’ll get to that in a moment. But first, what gets attention from one of the biggest newspapers in the world? Elon Musk making faces as a Chinese tech entrepreneur takes a selfie with him.
The Gray Lady spent a whole article on this. “The Gray Lady” is a nickname for the New York Times in part because of the color of newsprint and in part because of “the Times’ opposition to yellow journalism,” as Wikipedia summarizes. Yellow journalism is “the use of eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales, while the yellow press are American newspapers which do so.” Interesting….
To be fair to the New York Times, this is what people are interested in. We were having dinner at some friends’ house yesterday, and this was one of the first things my friend, the grandma, brought up to me. It went viral on social media. And the New York Times also has to pay its bills.
