This feels related to a recent Glenn Greenwald post: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...
Cancel The New York Times
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#12I have been noticing the new york times.
Someone on one of the articles here mounted an e-ink display on his wall, and loaded the new york times frontpage on it each day.
It has a very regular url:
https://static01.nyt.com/images////nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
So I wrote a script to download it each day and drop it in my inbox. It goes back about 10 years.
What I found was that the front page is different, it makes judgements and is opinionated. I wonder - am I reading articles that I have self-select and agree with?
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#13As a Non-American, I don't understand the hatred that is found in the article. I understand the author making the point/assumption that the New York Times, due to its large influence in the United States, has a pervasive sway in public opinion that goes further than just New York City. However I don't understand why that would be a bad thing, if it's not a monopoly? To take a more extreme example, there are bureaus i…
If the New York Times were taken as seriously as The National Enquirer (which never the less occasionally does journalism), few would care. However, the NYT are taken seriously, take themselves seriously and they have heft and sway it to set the tone of public opinion. Why else would so many do things for shitty pay so one day they climb the ladder and have their own bylines? If the NYT says something they get quoted seriously rather than sarcastically, etc.
That’s why it matters.
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#14Did the NYT do a Soylent story recently?
https://pando.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-finds...
I wonder if Rhinehart is behind #blockthenyt on Twitter
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#15Yes, private enterprises can employ editors and still be the first draft of history.
If the OP’s point is that editors aren’t needed to publish at scale....yes....that’s been true since at least 2006.
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#16I don’t think you really need to start a brigade against NYT here, they’re already a dying bunch because the American dream of the “middle class city liberal” they were catering towards is rapidly eroding away. Their main source of articles (Trump) has now been depleted, and soon they’ll have to resort to much desperate measures to keep eyeballs in, such as this one. (The writer doesn’t even seem to be passionate about writing this, it seems rather forced.)
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#17Maybe I'm taking this rant too literally but:
>There is a ton of money in newspapers. Have you ever heard of Hearst castle? There is a literal castle in California built by a man that owned newspapers.
I'm not sure that makes sense.... now.
Also the NYT destroyed local newspapers? I'm not sure that is accurate.
>They are the ones that choose the president.
What?
>Write what you want to write. Write what you really think. The truth will come out. And it will come out better if you stop fearing and feeding the octopus.
Is that just an argument to just believe whatever you want and to write a blog about it?
That whole rant seems off.
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#18Maybe I'm taking this rant too literally but: >There is a ton of money in newspapers. Have you ever heard of Hearst castle? There is a literal castle in California built by a man that owned newspapers. I'm not sure that makes sense.... now. Also the NYT destroyed local newspapers? I'm not sure that is accurate. >They are the ones that choose the president. What? >Write what you want to write. Write what you really th…
No comment on the rant other than to say that when I read this I thought to myself that given the author is referring to WRH then that’s definitely got to be Xanadu. And Wikipedia has just confirmed that it is!
My point being that should anyone ever want to see this argument made much more cogently (while also getting to appreciate one of the greatest films ever made) maybe give Citizen Kane a watch.
Rosebud!
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#19I love this article. That is all.
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#20I'm hoping someone can succinctly explain the hate for the NYT. Didn't get it before, don't get it now. It seems perfectly adequate. Same goes for WSJ, FT, the Economist, WaPo, etc. >I see it now. I see that information and truth and freedom have been oppressed. I had been silenced. We had all been bound and gagged and silenced, not directly, but indirectly, by a strange, complex, invisible, sinister force. But I see…
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