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Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by treeman79 »

Traster wrote: post #25

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…

There is a very active culture of attacking anyone with a conservative viewpoint. Attacking advertisers has been common for decades.

Refuse to given into lgbt community and you will be torn apart.

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by filoeleven »

> Do you think this is a bad article? A bad blog post? That it is poorly written or not true or too crazy or paranoid or insane or profane? That is too long or too rambling

This about sums it up, yes.

NYT may have gone downhill, or it may not have ever deserved its status as “the paper of record.” But it’s definitely not an oppressive octopus strangling America’s speech. The NYT isn’t the reason you’re afraid to write a controversial blog post; that’s absurd.

He’s being totally disingenuous by telling journalists to write what they want and damn the consequences, and if they ask him nicely HE will fund them—but only if they “really make [him] believe in” their writing. That’s really no different from saying “go freelance,” and I’d be very surprised if he ever backs this up with action.

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Post by eudajmonia »

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…

Why do people take themselves - so seriously. There was a lot of subtlety in this work and I interpreted it as part fiction. Thanks for sharing it, some of his other work was equally good.

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Post by jimmygrapes »

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.

Why are you the only one hearing this whistle?

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by Meph504 »

God this guy, loves to drone on, Just because someone can make a successful product/company doesn't mean they are worldly or wise.

This seems to demonstrate that, and honestly, this sort of droning on would give me pause to invest in company he has any leadership role in.

Why is this drivel even here?

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by seertaak »

If you're trying to sell the idea that a newspaper - known not only for its content, but as a reference for style and prose - is somehow obsolete, then maybe you should avoid writing like an 11 year-old on meth.

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Post by 93po »

Meph504 wrote: post #46

God this guy, loves to drone on, Just because someone can make a successful product/company doesn't mean they are worldly or wise. This seems to demonstrate that, and honestly, this sort of droning on would give me pause to invest in company he has any leadership role in. Why is this drivel even here?

>Just because someone can make a successful product/company doesn't mean they are worldly or wise.

Yet HN completely ignores this and upvotes content when it's someone who reflects their own values

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Post by convolvatron »

robin21 wrote: post #31

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 “gr…

why so negative? the times is getting worse. all written discourse is getting worse.

why not wish for someone to do better instead of taking a flamethrower to the dregs?

Re: Cancel The New York Times

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Post by sethc2 »

Meph504 wrote: post #46

God this guy, loves to drone on, Just because someone can make a successful product/company doesn't mean they are worldly or wise. This seems to demonstrate that, and honestly, this sort of droning on would give me pause to invest in company he has any leadership role in. Why is this drivel even here?

> Why is this drivel even here?

My guess is exactly because of statements like yours. He makes a good point, and when you can see past the conspiracy theory tone, I think this article is kind of awesome.

Your kind of response making people feel like this article is bad is almost the entire point why he writes in a crazy way.

Does he actually think the NYT is some singular conspirator, plotting the worlds doom? I highly doubt it. Is the NYT a good embodiment of the spirit that he is talking about? I’d say so.

This was my favorite part from his article - “ Invite friends to write on your blog. Start 20 blogs all with fake names of fake people. There are no rules! Start a blog for your cat and your rat and your flower garden. How does your rose feel about all this? Change your style with every post. Contradict yourself. Lie to me. Commit plagiarism. Be really egregious about it. Misquote authors and butcher philosophy. There are no rules! Ok now write some good stuff. Like some really deep look out the window and ponder the truth of the ages stuff. Get drunk and write. Get high and write. Write a message in the snow with your piss. I hope it offends somebody. Does this post offend you? Good! Now offend me! Let’s offend each other. Doesn’t it feel good to feel something?”

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