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Do you really think the NYT is uncritical of politicians? They're extremely critical of anything the GOP does, and moderately negative on the populist left. Ma

Do you really think the NYT is uncritical of politicians? They're extremely critical of anything the GOP does, and moderately negative on the populist left. Maybe they're too cosy with corporate Democrats, but those are the same Davos set as Schmidt et al. If anything, I feel like the Silicon Valley titans have gotten a free pass from the media for too long. It's only in the past few years that issues like data privacy or monopoly power have started to get coverage in major media after decades of the EFF or Mozilla banging their lonely drums.

crocodiletears 7y ago
I'd say it's mixed. Critical coverage of tech corps like Google's market position is sparse, but when it comes, it's like watching someone trying to put up a picture frame with a sledgehammer, because it's only ever trotted out to serve as a political weapon when a publication wants to force the target of their coverage to suppress either a competing new-media outlet, or some unofficial/unendorsed' (mis)information floating around the social network. It's always framed as, "[thing] is happening, I don't like it. [Platform] is too powerful, they're too big, and they tolerate [terrorism/racism/foreign propaganda]". The article is published, gets rewritten by other journos, [platform] has its censors wipe or suppress [thing], and publication magically forgets that [platform]'s market position was ever problematic. This happens a lot, both to the right and to leftists with critiques of the established political order.
Redoubts 7y ago
> Do you really think the NYT is uncritical of politicians? NYT On Trump: On Thursday, he speculated about treatments involving the use of household disinfectants. Some experts disagree. From their own WH Correspondent: Once again, wondering how Trump would have fared had he ever run for office in NY and had to face either the NYC or Albany press corp. ... guess the NYT doesn't think highly of themselves at all. NYT On Biden: We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable. Later removed because "the [Biden] campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward" The NYT is flaming garbage.
- gowld 7y ago
  Let this sink in: NYT hired the founding editor of BuzzFeed News, whose nearly first article at NYT was investigating NYT's cover-up of Reade's allegations and exposing NYT's collusion with the Biden campaign, in the form of an interview with an NYT executive editor who freely admits it all and can't understand what all the fuss is about. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-... BuzzFeed News is the team bringing integrity to the NYT.

crocodiletears 7y ago

I'd say it's mixed. Critical coverage of tech corps like Google's market position is sparse, but when it comes, it's like watching someone trying to put up a picture frame with a sledgehammer, because it's only ever trotted out to serve as a political weapon when a publication wants to force the target of their coverage to suppress either a competing new-media outlet, or some unofficial/unendorsed' (mis)information floating around the social network. It's always framed as, "[thing] is happening, I don't like it. [Platform] is too powerful, they're too big, and they tolerate [terrorism/racism/foreign propaganda]". The article is published, gets rewritten by other journos, [platform] has its censors wipe or suppress [thing], and publication magically forgets that [platform]'s market position was ever problematic. This happens a lot, both to the right and to leftists with critiques of the established political order.

Redoubts 7y ago

> Do you really think the NYT is uncritical of politicians? NYT On Trump: On Thursday, he speculated about treatments involving the use of household disinfectants. Some experts disagree. From their own WH Correspondent: Once again, wondering how Trump would have fared had he ever run for office in NY and had to face either the NYC or Albany press corp. ... guess the NYT doesn't think highly of themselves at all. NYT On Biden: We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable. Later removed because "the [Biden] campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward" The NYT is flaming garbage.

gowld 7y ago
Let this sink in: NYT hired the founding editor of BuzzFeed News, whose nearly first article at NYT was investigating NYT's cover-up of Reade's allegations and exposing NYT's collusion with the Biden campaign, in the form of an interview with an NYT executive editor who freely admits it all and can't understand what all the fuss is about. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-... BuzzFeed News is the team bringing integrity to the NYT.