Wow, NYT. Really?
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Wow, NYT. Really?
Via Andrew Weissmann:
The NYT editors are out of control.
Elizabeth McLaughlin:
The sneering tone of this headline from the nytimes says it all. I'm so tired of mainstream media. So damn tired.
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Like Trump, the New York Times seems to have lost it.
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@mastodonmigration Yep. They still have some good investigative reporting, and some decent news reporting, but their headlines/editorial staff needs help
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Laffy last edited by [email protected]
Know you know this, but for your readers. A lot of the current state on the NY Times can be blamed on the publisher A. G. Sulzberger, the latest in the line of Sulzbergers to run the family business, who while wealthy, has nothing like the money of the mega-billionaires buying up other corporate media companies. He's a pretty young guy, currently 44, and took over the publisher role in 2017, so very young.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
Just prior to his ascent, the Public Editor was eliminated and a curious affinity for access to the inner workings of Trump world became a mainstay of the paper. A.G. has defended his tilt away from so called "liberal" heritage as journalistic independence (https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/journalistic-independence-in-a-time-of-division-24269) and uses this rhetorical shield regularly. Why is he torching the 175 year reputation of the 'paper of record'? Is it ideological? Is it to cozy up to the real billionaires? Who knows.
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He repeats the phrase "independent journalism" as if it's a shield that deflects all attacks, while his paper's reporting partisanly favors Trump, covering for his incoherence.
We really should destroy any influence he has over our politics.
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@jztusk @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff @blogdiva don’t know if any of you read this, but it is eye opening. I find it ironic that I actually agree with the reasoning around why Bennet says he published the Tom Cotton op-ed though at the time it seemed so vile. The real dish here is the culture of circle jerking going on at “the paper of record”. The disintegration of distinction between the News and Opinion departments is ultimately why we can’t trust them anymore https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
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@macbraughton @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff @blogdiva
From the writer of that article: "The paper was slow to display much curiosity about the hard question of the proper medical protocols for trans children"
There are certainly interesting details in there, but fuck this guy too.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Donnie Hyxos last edited by
@macbraughton @jztusk @GottaLaff @blogdiva
Thanks for sharing. What a lot of words to describe the hard shift to "bothsiderism", that has functioned as a justification for abandonment of their responsibility to the truth. Like the Sulzberger piece above hawking 'journalistic independence' the travesty here is that they deliberately assume an active role in shaping public opinion. That's not their job.
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@jztusk @macbraughton @GottaLaff @blogdiva
Definitely f--- him, but the article is interesting in that it gives insight into a culture so full of themselves thinking they are manipulating the levers of public opinion. This is not journalism. It characterizes a propaganda operation.
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Hey, Laffy the online and print editions had different headlines, the online one being much more of a bit of right wing click bait.
(Which might explain why people I know in NYC IRL don't know what I'm talking about when I say the NY Times is going off the rails. )
Could this be an online only trend? (Doesn't make it right.)