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I'm really curious about the volume of tech-bashing opinion pieces that the NYTimes (and other corporate media outlets) publish on a daily basis. It's starting
by umeshunni 7y ago
I'm really curious about the volume of tech-bashing opinion pieces that the NYTimes (and other corporate media outlets) publish on a daily basis.
It's starting to rival the volume of Trump-bashing articles they used to publish at the peak of the US election cycle.
Do they have an entire department devoted to churning out this content?
Are they hiring freelancers are paying them by the word/click?
Do they also pay people to post them and upvote them on reddit/HN etc?
In the last day alone (from a search on HN):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/opinion/email-tracking.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/opinion/email-tracking.ht...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/googl...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/internet-democracy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/internet-democrac...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/books/review/the-code-margaret-omara.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/books/review/the-code-mar...
Most of them are just rehashing the same "big tech bad. media is freedom" spiel.
- jrockway 7y agoThey publish a lot of articles. I thought they were pretty hard on Hillary during the election too.
- lonelappde 7y agoNYTimes writes a lot of articles. The anti tech ones are highlighted here because that's what HN likes.
- throwaway2048 7y agoHN is far more cynical about tech in general than NYT is.
- kabwj 7y agoAlso Facebook. It’s because media companies used to control all the information and opinion. Now they’re losing that power to big tech. They are mad. But ultimately they will lose, for better or for worse.
- pessimizer 7y agoNo, they will operate as they have always operated, and simply be owned by Google or Amazon. They are currently operated by unaccountable billionaire families; in the future they will be operated by unaccountable billionaire families.