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First of all there are still local newspapers that have enough business to support investigative journalism. We can thank the Miami Herald for their work in br
by slacka 8y ago
First of all there are still local newspapers that have enough business to support investigative journalism. We can thank the Miami Herald for their work in breaking the Trump labor Sec. / Epstein scandal wide open. [1]
Secondly there are nonprofit like ProPublica that do amazing work. They were a major force that brought the dangers of fracking into light.[2]
Finally, Investigative journalism isn't cheap. The orgs need to pay a salary and travel costs for months and years on a story that may or may not pan out. In an interview, the journalist that broke it said that it took months to research and fact check an anonymous tip to develop it into a full blow story.
So no, I don't feel bad about NYT being a "corporation" when their quality journalism brings to light stores like this.
[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
[2] https://www.propublica.org/series/fracking https://www.propublica.org/series/fracking
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?module=inline https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...
- gabbygab 8y agoThe NYT also enabled harvey weinstein and spread lies about yellowcake which caused an illegal war and countless dead middle easterners. https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times/ https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-... Giving your family subscriptions to these companies is just as bad as given then facebook accounts. You seem to be under the childishy impression that if one is bad, then the other is good. That's not how things work. The NYT and Trump could both be bad. The NYT and Facebook can boh be back. For all the talk about how bad social media is, so many news people are all over social media begging people to buy subscriptions.
- jessaustin 8y agoThis is a more reasonable line of argument. Start with this rather than "pay party A in order to balance out harms to party B".