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Whataboutist arguments do not invalidate an article about something and do not show a form of hypocrisy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.
by novok 6y ago
Whataboutist arguments do not invalidate an article about something and do not show a form of hypocrisy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
One can be critical of behavior in one country and also not like the behavior of a country you also happen to reside. The linker is not the NY Times :)
Edit: And you don't have to profess the dislike of similar behavior in the same article
- m463 6y agoHowever since this is a NYT article, the NYT bestseller list may be relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Bestseller_List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Bestseller_List In particular the first paragraph under Controversies
- 9935c101ab17a66 6y agoWhy? This source indicates that they never pretended that it was truly a literal representation of the number of books that were actually sold (https://books.google.ca/books?id=PEZkkbohbtoC&pg=PA290&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=PEZkkbohbtoC&pg=PA290&redir...). And while you can argue they should reveal their methods, it's not disingenuous because it would be simply impossible to have an exact number of copies a book sold.
- m463 6y agoNo that's what they said when pressed in court. (sort of like coca-cola in court coming out with "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage") It's just ironic that the NYT has an article about the polish chart... that behaves just like their book chart.