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IDK if NYT has ever touched on a subject where you have insider knowledge, but it did to me. They framed and flavoured politically and event which was a result

IDK if NYT has ever touched on a subject where you have insider knowledge, but it did to me. They framed and flavoured politically and event which was a result of purely technical decisions. NYT has also published pieces about my country that I'd hardly could classify as any other thing than undisguised activism. So I remain very skeptical. It seems to me that there's a wave of new journalism culture in all the west that it's not being challenged from the inside. Here in Spain journalist make their ocassional reunions, interviews and stuff and they moan of the low consideration people have about them, then they go back to their seats to write or record what is basically political activism.

qsort 5y ago
I'm Italian, I know full well what you're talking about, I have zero sympathy for "the public doesn't trust us" type of lamentations because, guess what, it's their own fault. What I'm saying is that papers like the NYT were at least trying to separate facts from opinions in their reporting. It's just painful to see such a healthy tradition become overshadowed by the political trend du jour.
- spaniard89277 5y ago
  But are they? I dont read NYT often but everytime I do I'm able to identify the frame withouth much difficulty. Journalists have to write about everything, and they arent experts at anything. My hypothesis is thqt the lazyiest of em just become activists and make this a way of life. If you have any doubt about this, write any of the most common names in major publications in google and try find their twitter. Having good information is very difficult, and it typically involves paying for it, or accessing specialist publications, or niche ones. It is one of those unconfortable truths.
kodah 5y ago
When I was in high school, I was near proximity to some kids that CNN did the same thing to. They took what would've been potentially a decent, local, investigative story and juiced it. How? They baited kids, who didn't know these other kids or the events they were involved in, directly outside of my high school into saying something for the news report. The average viewer would never know all those kids they interviewed had no knowledge of what they were talking about and it has since flavored how I receive these "nightly reports".
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  Same thing for me, except with the Wall Street Journal.
- RickJWagner 5y ago
  Reminds me of the famous picture of Anderson Cooper standing in a ditch, trying to portray a flooded area.

qsort 5y ago

I'm Italian, I know full well what you're talking about, I have zero sympathy for "the public doesn't trust us" type of lamentations because, guess what, it's their own fault. What I'm saying is that papers like the NYT were at least trying to separate facts from opinions in their reporting. It's just painful to see such a healthy tradition become overshadowed by the political trend du jour.

spaniard89277 5y ago
But are they? I dont read NYT often but everytime I do I'm able to identify the frame withouth much difficulty. Journalists have to write about everything, and they arent experts at anything. My hypothesis is thqt the lazyiest of em just become activists and make this a way of life. If you have any doubt about this, write any of the most common names in major publications in google and try find their twitter. Having good information is very difficult, and it typically involves paying for it, or accessing specialist publications, or niche ones. It is one of those unconfortable truths.

kodah 5y ago

When I was in high school, I was near proximity to some kids that CNN did the same thing to. They took what would've been potentially a decent, local, investigative story and juiced it. How? They baited kids, who didn't know these other kids or the events they were involved in, directly outside of my high school into saying something for the news report. The average viewer would never know all those kids they interviewed had no knowledge of what they were talking about and it has since flavored how I receive these "nightly reports".

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
Same thing for me, except with the Wall Street Journal.
RickJWagner 5y ago
Reminds me of the famous picture of Anderson Cooper standing in a ditch, trying to portray a flooded area.