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Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by geofft »

throwaway713 wrote: post #146

I have become increasingly frustrated with the NYT's reporting practices. They are very hypocritical about criticizing tech while continuing to advertise heavily on the same services they criticize to promote their journalism. A lot of what they publish nowadays is often "technically correct" but misleading to the point of being dangerous. That, combined with the philosophy of the younger journalists working there to…

> the philosophy of the younger journalists working there to refuse having any contrasting opinions published

These are the same journalists who are coworkers with Bret Stephens, Bari Weiss, Ross Douthat, etc.?

Or, wait, are you referring to Bret Stephens himself? https://twitter.com/wajahatali/status/1268973742811684864

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by zozbot234 »

thinkingemote wrote: post #173
zozbot234 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why the NYT is going to blink. If they doxx this guy, then this becomes a huge grassroots story about how they are "fake news media" that doesn't uphold journalism ethics standards. (Even more so if the article is a negative hit piece w/ politicized overtones, as some people are - rightly or wrongly - speculating here. People _will_ stand up for him over his views, however controversial in some places.) He ma…

Lets be honest here. This will be a big story here in Hacker News for a few days, then we will get on with our lives. It will not spread out from that. This is ironically how the News works. It's new - novel, interesting, unique, temporary. We will stand up for Scott - but it won't really change anything, and it will be temporary. It's naive to think that what we find important for a bit will have any impact on the r…

Perhaps. But this is also the kind of story that can go far beyond the HN niche, especially given how it can align with current political views. It depends whether they do publish the article, and what it's like.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

zkid18 wrote: post #162
brnt wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disengaging based on an N=1 is not the type of individual action that improves our society. Our society is built on individual (and collective) attempts to improve, and you putting your money towards journalists you found to be doing a good job is the way we leave the world better than we found it. I hope you'll consider this, because our society cannot function without quality investigative reporting. I of course ag…

Also stopped reading any news and reports from big media about 3 years ago. Just curious are there any independent investigation journalists that work on the patreon/subscription model? Would consider donation them rather than NYT or WSJ.

It's difficult (for values that soon reduce to impossible) to get press accreditation as an independent journalist.

There are plenty of scrappy little online micronewspapers now, usually with an evident political slant, and some of them do real investigative journalism.

But there's no chance they'll get the direct access to the political system their mainstream cousins do.

It's also incredibly easy to astroturf fake news at that level, so not all of those sites are reliable.

The point about the MSM is that they're mass media with a huge subscriber/reader base. That's what gives them their leverage.

Journalism is much less influential without that.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by Tinyyy »

I’m not trying to dox the author, but I just want to point out that he blogged about his own name on SCC(in 2019 no less), which is quite counterproductive if he wanted his last name private.

https://archive.vn/d9HrI

Edit: The linked blog post was still live prior to the site takedown, so I’m assuming it’s acceptable to link to an archive of it.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by slowmotiony »

oh_sigh wrote: post #121
paublyrne wrote: post #101

> my patients – who run the gamut from far-left anarchists to far-right gun nuts This strikes me as an off way for a mental health professional to publicly refer to his patients, even anonymously ...

"gun nut" isn't an insult to gun nuts.

neither is "anarchists" to anarchists. Not sure what's the point OP is making

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by lazyasciiart »

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…

I think I replied to one of their daily roundups and asked for them to cancel it. If they can't even filter out deranged calls for violence from their opinion pages, I'm not going to pay them to publish anything.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by dang »

tschwimmer wrote: post #117
dang wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's displayed after the title though. There's even a site guideline about this: " If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The link and title was changed. It was originally another site and a worse title.

The link hasn't changed. The submitted title was "NYT threatens to dox blogger who often gets death threats. He deletes his blog", which broke the site guideline against editorializing, so we changed it.

Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by [deleted] »

sansnomme wrote: post #65
sxp wrote: post #5

> He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation. It probably would have been a very nice article. Unfortunately, he told me he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in the article, ie doxx me. ... When I expressed these fears to the reporter, he just said that…

A New York Times reporter was also involved in that incident. https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...

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Re: I Am Deleting the Blog

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Post by kwasson »

zkid18 wrote: post #162
brnt wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disengaging based on an N=1 is not the type of individual action that improves our society. Our society is built on individual (and collective) attempts to improve, and you putting your money towards journalists you found to be doing a good job is the way we leave the world better than we found it. I hope you'll consider this, because our society cannot function without quality investigative reporting. I of course ag…

Also stopped reading any news and reports from big media about 3 years ago. Just curious are there any independent investigation journalists that work on the patreon/subscription model? Would consider donation them rather than NYT or WSJ.

I'm not sure about individual journalists, but The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has a donate button. If there's a journalist whose work you admire, you could check if they have Patreon. https://www.occrp.org/en
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