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Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by robin21 »

I dream about buying the nytimes and shutting it down. I’ve thought of this so many times. As a nice daydream.

In the same whimsical tone of the article.

I honestly feel like I share the emotion of the author. I could write for hours about it. There are many other news networks and papers but still, I feel something draws me back to the nytimes as the true spawn point for all that is wrong in the world. It’s this “grey lady” notion. The “paper of record”. It’s not like the others that are unabashedly biased and know that they are.

The times is like an emperor blessed with the divine right to rule over truth and culture. The tone of the writing. The tone of their podcasts. Even in attacking it you must pay your respects to it as Trump did. You must leave the room without turning your back on it.

It doesn’t just evoke the need to reform itself. It evokes such a strong sense of...it needs to be killed and die.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by gremlinsinc »

Udik wrote: post #22
saalweachter wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's possible, is there lead content in soylent? Like lots of lead?

The guy sounds dis-associated from reality. A lot of the "everything is fake news" crowd is disjointed...I'm not sure of Soylent is the cause or not, or if they have investors/advisors if so, I'd be having a conversation about moving him out of the company and maybe into a psych ward for observation.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by jmull »

> The internet was no longer a safe place for self expression, which was the whole point of the internet.

He means for himself, certainly not anyone else, apparently.

The entire approach in this article is awful. It just builds up a boogeyman, demonizes it, sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, a lot of strong words, yet with virtually no substance.

It seems like copypasta written by AI that’s been digesting Facebook.

Not sure why someone would spend effort on dropping a turd like this into the world. I guess his aim is to elevate himself by tearing down something else? Become a source of truth by attacking a source of truth?

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by robin21 »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #28
saalweachter wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Don’t you feel like a robot at this point by just calling someone a racist without any explanation...especially in response to an article that is writing against mindless cancel culture.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Udik »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #28
saalweachter wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Try with any representation of the Mafia in Italy (also called "the octopus").

Let's stop with this frankly stupid cousin of the "reductio ad hitlerum", where anything that might also be characteristic of anti-Semitism becomes anti-Semitism and allows you to denounce someone as an antisemite.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #32
Udik wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's possible, is there lead content in soylent? Like lots of lead? The guy sounds dis-associated from reality. A lot of the "everything is fake news" crowd is disjointed...I'm not sure of Soylent is the cause or not, or if they have investors/advisors if so, I'd be having a conversation about moving him out of the company and maybe into a psych ward for observation.

He has always been divorced from reality: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-...

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Dma54rhs »

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…

Because quite frankly they are not in the business of reporting things but in the business of changing the world in a way they see fit and somehow try to paint it as some sort of scientific way of seeing life while it's far away from it.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by dunce2021 »

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…

It exists to manufacture your consent.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by addicted »

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…

Because they print over a 100 articles a day and a couple of them might peeve someone off who then decides the NYT sucks forever.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by hackissimo123 »

aaron695 wrote: post #29
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…

Don't forget this, also within the last week:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-the-...

And that's just recent events, without getting into the disgrace that was the 1619 Project.

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