Today's award for "best lede story" goes to Drudge Report, which ran with a New York Times story that even the New York Times didn't have as its main lede:
New York Times:
Long-running tensions between the United States and Russia erupted publicly on Monday as Moscow condemned the American military’s downing of a Syrian warplane and threatened to target aircraft flown by the United States and its allies west of the Euphrates.The implications are severe: This increases the risk of the Russians intentionally attacking American air forces over Syria. Is Syria really worth risking a war with Russia?
The Russians also said they had suspended their use of a hotline that the American and Russian militaries used to avoid collisions of their aircraft in Syrian airspace.
The episode was the first time the United States downed a Syrian plane since the civil war began there in 2011 and came after the SU-22 jet dropped bombs on Sunday near American-backed fighters combating the Islamic State.
So what is the main lede from the Leftist media today?
CNN:
Progressives poured $23 million into Jon Ossoff's campaign. House Democrats' campaign arm sent a team to Georgia to organize the sixth congressional district months ahead of the special election there.The fact CNN leads the story talking about the Democrat tells you where their bias lies (as if you didn't already know). But this is all manufactured drama in an election that Karen Handel will probably win.
Now, voters will decide whether all the effort was worthwhile.
Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are facing off Tuesday in what has become the most expensive House race in history, with the candidates, their parties and super PACs pouring more than $50 million combined into the effort to win a single House seat in the northern Atlanta suburbs.
If Ossoff pulls off the upset, we can discuss deeper meaning. Until then, this article is nothing but wishful thinking looking for a news story to back it.
As far as the right is concerned, Fox did have a story on the Georgia election, but it wasn't their lede story:
Fox News:
They once enjoyed a life of ill-gotten luxury, married to identical twins who climbed to the top of the world’s most profitable – and deadly – drug cartel. But these days, Mia and Olivia Flores live in the shadows, wearing disguises and shuttling their children from home to home, always wary someone is coming for them.The article goes on to describe how their husbands helped to bring down El Chapo. While this article does paint an interesting story, is it really a lede story? As Fox is fond of saying, "You decide".
Daughters of Chicago police officers, Mia and Olivia married Pedro and Margarito Flores Jr. as the brothers rose from street-level dealers to running Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán's Sinaloa drug cartel in the United States.
Speaking of Fox...
Fox News:
All of that free publicity couldn't push Megyn Kelly over the top.In summary, Americans don't really care to watch media personalities interview each other. Let them take their circle jerk elsewhere.
Despite a week's worth of stories about her controversial interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the Q&A ended up being watched by only 3.5 million viewers, and was soundly beaten by CBS rival “60 Minutes,” which drew 5.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
...The program took a nosedive in comparison to Kelly’s debut on June 4, which featured an interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin. That interview drew 6.2 million viewers.
And Kelly didn’t just lose viewers. Forbes reported JPMorgan, along with several local advertisers, dropped spots from the show or, in the case of the financial company, the enirety of NBC News, until after the interview aired.
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