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> often all the most popular articles in their site, are the opinion pieces It turns out people like to read other people's opinions. Who'da thunk? > I'm stil
by smacktoward 8y ago
> often all the most popular articles in their site, are the opinion pieces
It turns out people like to read other people's opinions. Who'da thunk?
> I'm still a subscriber, but there's a strongly "promoted" bias, IMHO
If you want a balanced overall view of the day's news, the place to start is the front/home page, not the "Most Popular" list. Newspaper editors spend extraordinary amounts of time agonizing over exactly what stories should go there and how much prominence to give to each. "Most Popular" skips all that in favor of the "wisdom of the crowd," which it turns out is not all that wise.
(If the nytimes.com home page still contains too much opinion for you, you can get a digital edition of each day's print paper's front page at this stable URL: https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper)
- taude 8y agoI typically just read the article notifications when they come in, so I think I get a pretty big mix? And I like their evening in review, or morning review sections when I have time.
- cperciva 8y agoIt turns out people like to read other people's opinions. Who'da thunk? Except that they don't like to read other people's opinions. They like to read their own opinions. The most popular opinion pieces are overwhelmingly those which play to the prejudices of the majority of readers, not those which challenge people by presenting unpopular opinions.