With this, the recent executive order suspending temporary work visas, the cancellation of Robert Hanson and Steve Hsu, the recession...
Not a great time to be part of the grey tribe right now.
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#222I’ve seen a lot of criticism for the NYT as of late, and, sadly, it’s almost all been warranted upon inspection. I’m not sure if it’s a case of the top dog getting all the scrutiny, but it’s crazy to me how a company with so many good journalists can seem to have so many bad. Much criticism is not even new (Manufactured Consent, Judith Miller).
The NYT is mostly benefiting from its reputation from 20+ years ago. It's a shitshow nowadays of extreme opinion pieces and bought articles. Other news papers that didn't have such a stellar reputation already surrendered to the digital age.
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#223Earlier 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.
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.
Your chart isn’t quite right— Q and Z aren’t (or weren’t) generally present: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number#/media/File...
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#225I’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.
I honestly don't even share what seems to be the majority opinion in the thread. If someone runs a public blog of the size that SSC has, which is not small by any means, and has previously partaken in real world events and his name has already come up I don't think one can argue that there is reasonably expectation of pseudonimity in that regard.
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#226I've cancelled my NY Times subscription and encourage everyone here to do the same.
Please contact them and clearly state why you are doing it. Enough people contacting them can change the editor's mind.
You HAVE to contact them to cancel, there's no way to do it without talking to a human that I can find.
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#227I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago, when I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter was at the scene, and later read what he had written about it in the newspaper. It had practically nothing to do with what really happened, but was written in a way that most of their readers would most likely expect and endorse. I was still very young then, but it opened my eyes, and from then on, I mostly st…
In underprivileged communities in the UK, kids are raised from a young age not to trust a "journo".
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#228I never trust the papers especially,or I am choosy on the news also you have to investigate and get the Truth always
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#229I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago, when I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter was at the scene, and later read what he had written about it in the newspaper. It had practically nothing to do with what really happened, but was written in a way that most of their readers would most likely expect and endorse. I was still very young then, but it opened my eyes, and from then on, I mostly st…
I think unfortunately journalists are trained to take phrases out of context so that they sound "sensational" / trigger emotional responses in the readers. You quickly find that out if give out interviews - you need to be very mindful how things may sound if taken out of context. E.g. a while ago a newspaper here took me an interview/ they were building a story about people that had somewhat remarkable results in sch…
Those are not journalists. They are outrage-farming ad impression generators.
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#230This 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 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…
> society body emerge with a coalition of Pulitzer Prize winners ... backed by the biggest news media companies
If biggest media companies were interested in upholding any ethical standards - the would have been doing that already. Allowing them to create a coalition and giving that coalition any more power would make things only worse.