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The NY Times isn't just allowing lies, it's prioritizing them. By allowing a certain law professor to publish opinion pieces that contain hyperbole, innuendo, a

The NY Times isn't just allowing lies, it's prioritizing them. By allowing a certain law professor to publish opinion pieces that contain hyperbole, innuendo, and other misleading rhetoric, the NY Times is increasing the reach of this law professor. If it had not been for this opinion piece, millions of readers would otherwise have been unaware of this law professor, but are now exposed to his rhetoric thanks to the NY Times.

rexpop 7y ago
These questions of political bias in media always remind me of that old Hacker Koan: In the days when Sussman was a novice... 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937
mostlysimilar 7y ago
Honest question: can you pay more money to NY Times to get your opinion piece more exposure? Can you target individual readers as an audience based on data NY Times has on them?
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- Spivak 7y ago
  I mean you can buy ads same as Facebook. It’s hard to SEO the NYT but if anyone could pay to get their posts a bigger organic audience on FB nobody would buy ads.
- sodosopa 7y ago
  That's what Gannett does in their numerous local newspapers.
alwayseasy 7y ago
How much did this law professor pay to have the opinion piece published in the opinion section of the New York Times? Do you think a hyperbole about Mark Zuckerberg is comparable to a political ad full of lies?
CaptainZapp 7y ago
"By allowing a certain law professor to publish opinion pieces that contain hyperbole" Well, you answered the question yourself: It's an opinion piece and clearly marked as such. If said professor could spout his hyperbole in the actual news pages you'd have a point. Facebook does not make any such distinction.