3 ms·
This comes off as a petty establishment dunk on an independent media source. The first couple paragraphs make it clear that The NYT is still smarting from havi
by no-dr-onboard 6y ago
This comes off as a petty establishment dunk on an independent media source.
The first couple paragraphs make it clear that The NYT is still smarting from having been overshadowed by the Guardian and Intercept for the Snowden era leaks. The author gleefully dances on the conviction of Winner while lambasting the Intercept as having broken NewsRule No.1.
As seems to be the case with most of the NYTs stories in this year, the source for this article is concealed as well. NYT proposes that they have a couple pdfs of leaked internal emails that explain the internal tumult for this event. Two questions arise for this though: “Are we supposed to just blindly trust the NYT with their continued “anonymous sources” programme?”, and also “What of it?”
What of it that a public failure led to internal tumult in a firm? I’m sure it happens a lot at the NYT as well. Is this really what journalism has gotten to? Petty reporting about another outlets infighting?
- jgalt212 6y agoI would go so far as to say the NY Times and most establishment media have lost their way in the age of Trump. Too much joust and parry, and not enough charting one's own course.
- ilyaeck 6y agoI used to read the NYT every day. Not anymore, now they are on my "disgraced media" list.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe NYT got the Snowden leaks correct just one day after the PRISM story appeared in The Guardian and WaPo. To this day, The Guardian still hasn't issued corrections for the multiple errors that Greenwald made in his articles. WaPo issued a wishy washy correction that just made it's reporting even more confusing. This isn't mere dunking (unlike https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/ https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace..., which spends an entire article lambasting WaPo for mentioning an organization that was mentioned in passing in a larger article that mostly interviewed other people and organizations). How a source ends up found and jailed is news of the investigative type.