Why the spin?

[redqueen]

It's behind a paywall so I can't read the article, but the title was changed to make it sound more dismissive.

People distrust the media for good reason.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/28/andrew-yang-was-groomed-high-paying-job-an-elite-law-firm-he-lasted-five-months/

[Peacetrain]

1. redqueen... hang in there..

there was a report that Andrew Yang was taking support from another candidate and that has released and all out .. gotta stop him.... from the far reaches of that campaigns supporters.. that would be my best guess

[redqueen]

5. I've seen similar title alterations for other candidates, I think.

Wish I'd saved the examples. It's really frustrating.

[Celerity]

2. here is some of the article (I am a WaPo subscriber)

Andrew Yang was groomed for a high-paying job at an elite law firm. He lasted five months.

Walking away from wealth and prestige dismayed his immigrant parents. But it made him into the entrepreneur running for president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/28/andrew-yang-was-groomed-high-paying-job-an-elite-law-firm-he-lasted-five-months/?arc404=true



NEW YORK — Andrew Yang’s office phone rang at 6 p.m. on a Friday. He reached for it, then stopped. The staffing coordinator at his New York law firm was calling. If he answered, he knew, he’d be at his desk all weekend editing some dull stack of documents. It was fall of 1999, and Yang, 24, was in the job he had steered toward his whole life. Phillips Exeter Academy, Brown University, Columbia Law — the perfect elite track to land at Davis Polk & Wardwell, one of the country’s premier law firms. His Taiwanese immigrant parents were thrilled. Counting salary and bonus, he was making about $150,000 a year.

But now he looked at the phone, and the nagging whisper in his head was suddenly a screaming alarm: He was in the wrong job. He wanted to be the person creating businesses and deals, not the person writing the contracts. He let the phone ring and slipped out the door. That small act of rebellion was his first step toward becoming Andrew Yang, entrepreneur.

Two decades later, Yang’s norm-busting career as an Internet business builder is the foundation for his norm-busting Democratic presidential campaign. He evangelizes about what he’s learned creating start-ups and nurturing businesses focused on the public good. His marquee policy — giving every U.S. adult $1,000 a month in guaranteed income — is the most un­or­tho­dox proposal of any major candidate. It’s the product of a nontraditional career, which began with his decision, in early 2000, to quit his law firm and walk away from all that money, prestige and comfort.

He frequently refers to his lawyer days as “the five worst months of my life.” “Working at a law firm was like a pie-eating contest, and if you won, your prize was more pie,” Yang said in a recent interview on the Acela train from Washington to New York, between hurried bites of a turkey sandwich. The law jokes play well, especially because seven of the 12 candidates in the last televised Democratic debate have law degrees.

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much more at the link

[redqueen]

3. Thanks!

[Celerity]

4. yw!

[George II]

6. Here's more of the article, immediately following your excerpt:

“Working at a law firm was like a pie-eating contest, and if you won, your prize was more pie,” Yang said in a recent interview on the Acela train from Washington to New York, between hurried bites of a turkey sandwich.

The law jokes play well, especially because seven of the 12 candidates in the last televised Democratic debate have law degrees.

But quitting law was not really about walking away from something. It was more about running toward something else that was calling to him with a sudden, urgent clarity.

“I thought, ‘Shouldn’t I be someone who builds something?’ ” he said. “That made more sense to me. But how do you get there? I figured there was no way to figure it out except to do it.”

So just before the start of the new millennium, Yang and another refugee from his law firm created an Internet start-up to help celebrities use their fame to raise money for charity.

It flopped. He went broke, lost his apartment, lost weight and confidence, and wondered (along with his worried parents) how he was going to pay off $110,000 in law school debt.

But Yang was remaking himself.

“I have no regrets about not picking up that phone,” he said.

[redqueen]

9. Thanks!

His story is a compelling one. It truly shows how committed he is to the people of this country.

[George II]

11. I really like him, very much so. I don't know that he has the qualities to be President but...

...he's a very good man who has, can, and will help many Americans. And he oozes charisma.

I wonder if he has a place in the cabinet of a Democratic President?

[redqueen]

12. One never knows what the future holds :)

I definitely think he has what it takes to beat Trump.

[brooklynite]

7. Explain what the title bias is...

[Shrike47]

8. "He lasted 5 months" implies he was not able to handle the work in spite of all his preparation.

In fact, one could infer he was fired.

[redqueen]

10. Thanks

like I said there have been more examples of this - where they'll have a headline that's perfectly clear and conveys the meaning well, and then it'll be changed after the fact to this kind of negative spin.

[brooklynite]

13. That's your opinion...

It could just as easily mean “he couldn’t last in the work environment”, which seems to be what the story was saying.

[redqueen]

14. Except that's not true. Not sure what gave you the impression that he "couldn't last"

when what actually happened is he decided he wanted to be doing something else.