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The NYT has run of the most effective ad campaigns in recent years, somehow placing itself as the last bastion of 'objective reporting', and the intellectual sm
by naturalgradient 9y ago
The NYT has run of the most effective ad campaigns in recent years, somehow placing itself as the last bastion of 'objective reporting', and the intellectual smugness that comes with it.
From my observation, they are giving platform to just one side of the debate in many issues, e.g. title IX legislation, where they are portraying a move that is supported by a number of reputed law professors[0] as another Trump goverment vs the victims argument:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/weakening-college-sex-assault-policies.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/weakening-college...
Yes, it's an opinion article, but by choosing to give platform to just one side of the opinion, they are making a political choice.
[0] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/1/law-faculty-title-ix/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/1/law-faculty-title...
- naturalgradient 9y agoSure, downvote, but that does not make it less true. I am not implying the NYT is a worse newspaper than many others in that instance. I am saying they are trying to pretend they are objective and above the rest in their noble fight for the truth, when there is evidence they are not.
- g09980 9y agoThe parent post by @mtgx is now [dead] just for stating an unpopular viewpoint, which is even more so troubling given the topic of this thread.
- naturalgradient 9y agoIt is not quite clear to me what value it provides to the discussion to completely mark comments [dead] beyond downvoting. Why not leave them there?