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This 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

This 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.

dang 11y ago
Ok, we changed the url from http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-financial-savior-carlos-slim-helu/ http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-fina... to the book review that it points to.
- hughw 11y ago
  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.
  - dang 11y ago
    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.
endrebak 11y ago
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/reporters-in-las-vegas-try-to-crack-case-of-who-owns-their-newspaper.html?referer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporter...)
- dang 11y ago
  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.
  - endrebak 11y ago
    I'm sorry for both not being aware of and breaking the rules. There is no excuse for either.
    - dang 11y ago
      No worries! The rules remain rather obscure no matter how often we post things like this.
pitt1980 11y ago
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
kafkaesq 11y ago
And yet, its basic point -- that given how the NYT seems to have abstained from any serious investigation of Carlos Slim's empire, since he became a shareholder -- and the irony of its attempting to give kudos to the LV paper for investigating its ownership -- seems quite valid.

dang 11y ago

Ok, we changed the url from http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-financial-savior-carlos-slim-helu/ http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-fascist-roots-of-the-nyts-fina... to the book review that it points to.

hughw 11y ago
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.
- dang 11y ago
  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.

endrebak 11y ago

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/reporters-in-las-vegas-try-to-crack-case-of-who-owns-their-newspaper.html?referer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporter...)

dang 11y ago
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.
- endrebak 11y ago
  I'm sorry for both not being aware of and breaking the rules. There is no excuse for either.
  - dang 11y ago
    No worries! The rules remain rather obscure no matter how often we post things like this.

pitt1980 11y ago

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

kafkaesq 11y ago

And yet, its basic point -- that given how the NYT seems to have abstained from any serious investigation of Carlos Slim's empire, since he became a shareholder -- and the irony of its attempting to give kudos to the LV paper for investigating its ownership -- seems quite valid.