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Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by bingojess »

saalweachter wrote: post #9
cocacola1 wrote: post #8

I'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…

Googling [why does rob rhinehart hate the new york times] yielded https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...

Unhinged sounds about right, the blog post started out normal but it became increasingly disconnected and unsubstantiated. It read like something someone on adderall would churn out

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Udik »

saalweachter wrote: post #9
cocacola1 wrote: post #8

I'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…

Googling [why does rob rhinehart hate the new york times] yielded https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...

Frankly, if the Vice article is true (and it seems plausible given the rambling style of this one) he sounds pretty unhinged. Is this the effect of feeding only on Soylent?

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by warmfuzzykitten »

Wow. The written equivalent of a YouTube conspiracy video. The factual claims aren't facts, e.g., the NYT had nothing to do with the demise of local papers, if you could point to a single cause it would be the loss of classified advertising. And the accusations are outrageous. Far from "all", nobody at all is "being controlled...and enslaved by the evil octopus of the New York Times."

The link below may overgeneralize, but it dissects the piece in some detail.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by 8bitsrule »

ratsmack wrote: post #5

>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 it now. I see it so clearly. There was a "guild of truth" telling us that there was a central narrative of mankind. Truth was branded. We are all being controlled and oppressed and…

> Yes there was tons of content.... But they were all the same. Nobody was really saying anything. They were not allowed to.

I played along with Rhinehart's 'Sound of Silence' (Simon/Garfunkle) routine / experiment / message until suddenly: BLAM We are all being controlled by: the New York Times! OF COURSE. It's so simple. How could we have missed it until now?

All cultures have a dark side, as all we humans do. (See for reference:2020) Nature is beautiful, Nature is cruel. 'Best of times, worst of times.' But looking for a single source of darkness in some individual other is ... well, flippo.

'Find a scapegoat and beat up on it' doesn't lead to truth. After a century of war, we're still working on this. And suffering for it.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Traster »

Interesting to see the intersection of the right wing anti-media agenda with a new appreciation for cancel culture. If you don’t like something don’t buy it, but starting a campaign against it makes me think your not interested in a free and open discourse. For the same reason I’m not going to condemn a blogger for a couple of poorly considered comments or a podcaster for an exaggerated story about his daughter, I’m not going to endorse campaigning against the NYT because of some cockamamie idea they dictate public discourse.

Cancel your subscription, stop trying to stoke up a mob.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by oliwarner »

tldr, Rob is growing away from the mainstream. He feels he has no voice, no power politically and seems to want to lash out at an entity that appears to have both.

I don't understand it, but it's not an uncommon story, especially recently.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

Rob has completely lost his already tenuous grasp on reality. The entire concept and execution of Soylent, his mission to "correct" his gut biome in order to be 100% efficient and produce no waste, his ridiculous idea of being "sustainable" by never doing laundry and instead mass ordering clothes produced overseas, are just a few of his "ideas".

Add to this that nutritionally complete meal replacement shakes have been available at every corner store and drug store since the 1970s. His grand "invention" is a bad reimplementation of a wheel that already existed in a better form. Typical SV myopia.

Why anyone listens to a word he says, is a mystery. He's clearly completely off his rocker.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by CaptainZapp »

saalweachter wrote: post #9
cocacola1 wrote: post #8

I'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…

Googling [why does rob rhinehart hate the new york times] yielded https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...

From the Vice article:

[...]and he refers to the New York Times more than once as an “evil octopus” that controls things behind the scenes

It's hard to come up with a dog whistle that antisemitic.

The guy's a fucking racist too.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by aaron695 »

cocacola1 wrote: post #8

I'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…

> I'm hoping someone can succinctly explain the hate for the NYT.

In the past week these were enough for me to consider the NYT is done, it's rotten to the core (150 staff signed a letter against Donald McNeil) -

Taylor Lorenz

Donald McNeil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128752

This article/rant is wrong about what the issues are. I assume the upvotes are the Soylent connection, the headline and an attempt at a solution (ghost.org)

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Jiocus »

headmelted wrote: post #18
duxup wrote: post #17

Maybe 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!

+1 on this one.

Just happened to rewatch Citizen Kane last week

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