The New York Times tries to help Taylor Swift steal someone's boyfriend.
2017:
Time magazine places Taylor Swift, not Tarana Burke, on its cover, enraging black women everywhere.
2018:
Without mentioning Me Too, The New York Times claims to illustrate Ms. Swift's "courage" with this description about an incident in 2013:
Quote:
There’s a good reason for any female artist, especially one who got her start on country radio, to think twice about wading into politics. To understand how much courage it took for Taylor Swift to post such a statement, you need to remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks back in 2003. At the time they were one of the most popular acts in country-music history and the top-selling female group of all time. Then, in the run-up to the Iraq war, the lead singer, Natalie Maines, told a London audience that the group opposed the coming invasion: “We do not want this war, this violence,” she said, “and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”
To their audience, the band members
became public enemies overnight. Radio stations were bombarded with
calls from irate listeners. The group’s tour sponsor dropped them. Fans
boycotted them. They got death threats. Ever since, country-music
publicists have made it clear to their artists, especially their female
artists: Skip the politics.
The Dixie
Chicks never recovered. Here in 2018, something very different is
happening to Taylor Swift: People, it seems, are following her lead. By
noon on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after she posted her exhortation on
Instagram, more than 166,000 people across the country had registered to
vote. And while there is no hard evidence, no way to measure how much
Swift’s post had to do with the bump, some details were telling: Roughly
42 percent of the newly registered are between the ages of 18 and 24,
right in Taylor Swift’s wheelhouse. “We have never seen a 24- or 36- or
48-hour period like this,” a spokeswoman for Vote.org told The Times."
Article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/taylor-swift-phil-bredesen-marsha-blackburn.html?fallback=0&recId=1BlJYAT2aVBBFT8L8JbJWuoN4RN&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=MA&recAlloc=contextual-bandit-home-geo&geoCountry=US&blockId=midterm-elections&imp_id=645953673&action=click&module=Election%202018&pgtype=Homepage
