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Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

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Re: Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

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Seems like Canada's largest daily newspaper is stopping just shy of accusing NYT of manipulating their best seller list for e.g. political reasons. This is getting interesting...

Yes, reading between the lines, it sounds like they suspect that. They would not have gone into such detail about a mere technicality.

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Seems like Canada's largest daily newspaper is stopping just shy of accusing NYT of manipulating their best seller list for e.g. political reasons. This is getting interesting...

It might not be widely known but the NYT Bestseller list is curated list.

Re: Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

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Seems like Canada's largest daily newspaper is stopping just shy of accusing NYT of manipulating their best seller list for e.g. political reasons. This is getting interesting...

It might not be widely known but the NYT Bestseller list is curated list.

I guess this incident makes it more widely known.

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Seems like Canada's largest daily newspaper is stopping just shy of accusing NYT of manipulating their best seller list for e.g. political reasons. This is getting interesting...

Perhaps, but if so, it's being applied very inconsistently. For example, the Op Ed page has recently been printing pieces that have upset the paper's leftest elite champions.

e.g. a piece challenge climate change orthodoxy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/climate-of-comple...

Re: Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

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Related: "Why is controversial professor Jordan Peterson so popular?" https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/02/07/why-...

Man, I love how totally valid and normal thought is now labeled as "controversial". You gotta flag wrong-thinkers from the getgo right? Can't let anyone have any wrong ideas.

Re: Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

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Related: "Why is controversial professor Jordan Peterson so popular?" https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/02/07/why-...

Man, I love how totally valid and normal thought is now labeled as "controversial". You gotta flag wrong-thinkers from the getgo right? Can't let anyone have any wrong ideas.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/02/helen_pluckrose.htm...
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