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Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by [deleted] »

iagovar wrote: post #42
matt_f wrote: post #36

If you're pissed off by this, as I am, here's how the author politely suggests that you direct your support: > There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS…

Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean? 844-NYTNEWS Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times? And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.

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Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by iagovar »

alias_neo wrote: post #46
iagovar wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean? 844-NYTNEWS Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times? And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.

You press the number on the dial pad which also has the letter in question. Just once. This is just a popular (in the US?) way to make numbers easier to remember.

I see, so it's not like in the old mobile phones where you have to press a bunch of times to get a letter, just once. It's a clever custom.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

#53

Post by pvg »

chillacy wrote: post #14

This is a tragedy, Scott Alexander is such a thoughtful writer. I wish journalists would come up with some professional standards and make the title licensed, like doctor or lawyer. Right now we all recognize how important journalism is but journalists themselves run the gamut from ethical investigative journalists to clickbait manufacturers. Imagine if journalists also had to adhere to the equivalent of attorney cli…

Scott Alexander was not the source. Journalists generally don't reveal sources and some have gone to jail to avoid doing so.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

#54

Post by kuschku »

iagovar wrote: post #42
matt_f wrote: post #36

If you're pissed off by this, as I am, here's how the author politely suggests that you direct your support: > There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS…

Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean? 844-NYTNEWS Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times? And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.

      1  |  2  |  3  
         | ABC | DEF 
    -----|-----|-----
      4  |  5  |  6  
     GHI | JKL | MNO 
    -----|-----|-----
      7  |  8  |  9  
    PQRS | TUV | WXYZ
    -----|-----|-----
      *  |  0  |  #  
         |  +  |
Now 0800-INFO becomes 0800-4636 — you just press the key corresponding to the letter once.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by iagovar »

chillacy wrote: post #14

This is a tragedy, Scott Alexander is such a thoughtful writer. I wish journalists would come up with some professional standards and make the title licensed, like doctor or lawyer. Right now we all recognize how important journalism is but journalists themselves run the gamut from ethical investigative journalists to clickbait manufacturers. Imagine if journalists also had to adhere to the equivalent of attorney cli…

I'm not really putting much on the table but journalist are in my low tier of respect, if there's any.

There's so many instances of abuse, lying and laziness that seems low standards are common through the profession and countries.

In general I tend to see them as activist, with very few exceptions of people that tries to approach truth.

Nowadays it really doesn't matter if they write for a local newspaper or WAPO, it's just so common that your default approach should be looking at every piece as propaganda.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

#57

Post by tschwimmer »

rebuilder wrote: post #47
ericzawo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 100% agree and talked about this a lot in j school. Would love to see some type of society body emerge with a coalition of Pulitzer Prize winners (the only real framework that possibly stands to live past the inevitable calls about its legitimacy from the News Corp -owned bodies of media, honestly) and ideally backed by the biggest news media companies in the world. I would love to see a further membership based el…

You don't have a self-governing body for journalism?

There's this, but I don't see much discussion about it: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by praptak »

chillacy wrote: post #14

This is a tragedy, Scott Alexander is such a thoughtful writer. I wish journalists would come up with some professional standards and make the title licensed, like doctor or lawyer. Right now we all recognize how important journalism is but journalists themselves run the gamut from ethical investigative journalists to clickbait manufacturers. Imagine if journalists also had to adhere to the equivalent of attorney cli…

First fix the economic incentives. They are badly broken after the paper press lost to internet news.

You can't expect the journalists to uphold ethical standards when the market rewards garbage rage-inducing clickbait.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by shalmanese »

bonchicbongenre wrote: post #6

Somewhat related — does anyone know an easier way to cancel one's NYT subscription than going through the rigmarole of waiting for/talking with multiple "customer service" reps? After NYT's all-too-credulous parroting of Barr's mischaracherization of the Mueller report I tried to cancel mine, but spent over an hour on the phone with no progress, and gave it up. I should have persisted — I don't want to give them my m…

Switch your payment method to PayPal and then cancel from the PayPal side. I got burnt by trying to cancel the NYT a few years ago so I made sure not to give them any of my financial details this time around.

I decided to cancel last month due to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed and couldn't figure out an easy way to do it on-site so I just cancelled from the PayPal end. On a lark, I decided to try and cancel from the NYT end as well just to see how difficult it would be. I connected to the live chat and finally got connected to a representative after TWENTY FIVE HOURS on hold and was given 20 minutes to respond before being cut off.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by [deleted] »

iagovar wrote: post #42
matt_f wrote: post #36

If you're pissed off by this, as I am, here's how the author politely suggests that you direct your support: > There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS…

Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean? 844-NYTNEWS Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times? And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.

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