Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
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Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#2This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do.
Please lead with better material.
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#3This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do. Please lead with better material.
Ok, we changed the url from http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-fina... to the book review that it points to.
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#4This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do. Please lead with better material.
It is just a blog post. I hope someone will pick up the threads and see whether there is anything of interest there.
If you want to read highbrow material, do not click on hacker news submissions with such impish titles :)
(what lead me to post it was this HN submission: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporter...)
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#5This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do. Please lead with better material.
Ok, we changed the url from http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-fina... to the book review that it points to.
That completely changes the meaning and I presume, the OP's intent in submitting the link. The original link focused on Slim's connections to the Lebanese Phalange. The new link doesn't even mention Phalange.
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#6This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do. Please lead with better material.
in many/most parts of the world wealth is dynastic in nature
the dynastic nature of Slims wealth is relevant to Americans in that he's a major financial backer of the most respected media institution in our country
if that doesn't interest you, I guess that's your prerogative
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, we changed the url from http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-fina... to the book review that it points to.
That completely changes the meaning and I presume, the OP's intent in submitting the link. The original link focused on Slim's connections to the Lebanese Phalange. The new link doesn't even mention Phalange.
That's true, but hot polemics don't really belong on HN, and the unz.com URL is still here for anyone who wants to peruse it.
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#8This article is of brutal quality. I am all for uncloaking the superrich and their agendas but this is about spurious links to wife's uncle's and whatnots for at least 50% of the article. Then I stopped reading because I have better things to do. Please lead with better material.
It is just a blog post. I hope someone will pick up the threads and see whether there is anything of interest there. If you want to read highbrow material, do not click on hacker news submissions with such impish titles :) (what lead me to post it was this HN submission: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporter... )
By the way, the title you originally submitted ("Reporters at NYT Try Not to Crack Case of Who Owns Their Newspaper") breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait.
Using HN titles to editorialize is something we specifically ask people not to do, so please don't do that.
Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
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Re: Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
#10I liked this article, except for this part:
"...his home country, where the middle class is burgeoning but almost half the population still lives in poverty."
This is a naive claim, it may appear so because people here in Mexico (specially in urban areas) spend a lot on bars, restaurants, vacations, gadgets and even cars.
What the author oversees is that this same people have not enough savings in the bank to survive even a couple of months without a job, owe lots of money to the bank and are unable to acquire more relevant goods like a home.
What the author calls middle class are in fact poor people with lots of toys and lots of credit cards.