I Am Deleting the Blog

Post by mijoharas » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

makomk wrote: post #27

seven4 wrote: post #4

Edit: I'm 50:50 on whether they take the negative press hit of publishing this anyway. If they publish without name included - everyone still finds out the name of the "flippant" writer. If they don't it just concedes that their attitude was wrong to begin with. They are in a tough spot now - hard to feel sorry for them given the asympathetic position they assumed. ~~~ SlateStarCodex shutting down in direct response…

It's not just the New York Times either. Take a look at what happened to the NightJack blog in the UK (and in that case, it turned out that the Times had illegally hacked the blogger's email to get their information and then lied about it in court to dodge an injunction).

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

cambalache wrote: post #594

underwater wrote: post #488

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Paul's post has always felt like a wordy defense of the "well, actually". Lots of us passionate techies like to weigh in on every topic and forget that not everything is academic. Sometimes the world doesn't need to hear our opinion. That doesn't mean we're being censored.

"Techies" are not academics in general.

Post by cutemonster » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 3:29 PM UTC

zepto wrote: post #701

catacombs wrote: post #679

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How about buying a subscription to not just NYT or other national outlets, but local news organizations so the people reporting on these issues can keep the lights on.

The NYT in this case should never be supported again. Scott Alexander does important journalistic work in deeply analyzing the issues. It’s worth noting that the story is about how he was right about coronavirus in ways that the NYT was not . The NYT is knowingly attacking his livelyhood and person by exposing him in this way.

Post by catacombs » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 3:30 PM UTC

cutemonster wrote: post #700

catacombs wrote: post #679

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How about buying a subscription to not just NYT or other national outlets, but local news organizations so the people reporting on these issues can keep the lights on.

I've gotten the impression it'd cost like $100 / month to subscribe to the different newspapers whose articles I read maybe once a month? But if there was a way to subscribe to all of them and pay $1 per article (But I'd like to use Trim for 2 years, for Nyt.)

Post by greenhatglack » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 3:32 PM UTC

Uhrheber wrote: post #75

I 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…