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Sorry, but what's your complaint about this specific piece from the NYT? Just skimming, I see 21 links to other sources. I haven't clicked through on all of th
by js2 6y ago
Sorry, but what's your complaint about this specific piece from the NYT?
Just skimming, I see 21 links to other sources. I haven't clicked through on all of them. It appears to weigh various pros and cons. It seems even handed to me on a quick skim.
Further, the NYT has many sections and voices. This piece is specifically from from The Upshot which has this tagline: "Analysis that explains politics, policy and everyday life, with an emphasis on data and charts."
And this specific piece is written not by a reporter, but by a expert in the field: Austin Frakt is director of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System; associate professor with Boston University’s School of Public Health; and a senior research scientist with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
I appreciate the rest of your comment.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoNot the grand parent comment and I don't have anything specifically against the NYT or this piece, which I agree is pretty balanced. It is great that they paint a positive picture of Portugal as a forward-thinking progressive nation, the point that Portuguese people often take an issue with this and other pieces, in american and british press, is that they fail to explain the motivation behind this policy. These measures were not a hippie social experiment, they were created out of a desperate lack of alternatives in the face of a de facto public health crisis due to a heroin epidemic. I cannot put in words that make it justice, you had entire neighbourhoods become drug slums with hundreds of heroin dealers and people inject on the sidewalks in broad daylight. It was crime problem, it was a health problem, it was a whole generation of people lost to this. It's this omission in the 'why' of decriminalization that feels somewhat dishonest.
- 082349872349872 6y agoReading highly reductive US coverage of my country is what makes me skeptical they do much better in covering their own national news.