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New York Smells Like a Declining City

5 points by pinewurst 4y ago

pinewurst 4y ago
https://archive.ph/O64Od https://archive.ph/O64Od
wunderland 4y ago
Headline sounds like this might be some meaningful analysis of the death of city life, affordable housing crisis, police violence, etc. But it’s just a rant about people smoking weed.
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  I thought it was going to be about the city's inability to deal with garbage efficiently or suchlike. I am truly saddened to learn that the elite are subjected to live among such odiferous plebeians.
- drewbeck 4y ago
  A real throwback rant at that. Vintage stuff.
- nh23423fefe 4y ago
  What do you expect from https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/jason-trennert.asp?cycle=16 https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/jason-...
bediger4000 4y ago
Wait, Wall Street is actually in NYC,isn't it? I do not understand why papers do this kind of thing. Last year, the Denver Post had a headline "Lawless Hellhole" about the downtown Union Station transportation hub. It was a bogus headline, I walked through Union Station a few days after, people were sipping coffee on sidewalk tables, grandmothers were walking dogs. I think newspapers have spent 50 years trying to escape the screeches of "liberal media", and they've become conservative, so they end up hating the metro areas that have harbored and nutured them.
- jfengel 4y ago
  The Wall Street Journal has never been "liberal media", but since 2007 it has been owned by Rupert Murdoch. Its news coverage has always had that conservative tendency associated with the financial industry, but was (and mostly remains) a fairly reliable news source. Its opinion pages have become increasingly psychotic, like the rest of Murdoch's empire, pushing delusional right-wing fantasies. Many other "mainstream news sources" have indeed contorted themselves into surreal positions to avoid accusations of "liberal bias". It's possible that's what happened to the Denver Post. But this is just partisan propaganda, being bolstered by having its name attached to a newspaper with a good but rapidly tarnishing reputation.

5 points by pinewurst 4y ago

https://archive.ph/O64Od https://archive.ph/O64Od

Headline sounds like this might be some meaningful analysis of the death of city life, affordable housing crisis, police violence, etc. But it’s just a rant about people smoking weed.

anigbrowl 4y ago
I thought it was going to be about the city's inability to deal with garbage efficiently or suchlike. I am truly saddened to learn that the elite are subjected to live among such odiferous plebeians.
drewbeck 4y ago
A real throwback rant at that. Vintage stuff.
nh23423fefe 4y ago
What do you expect from https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/jason-trennert.asp?cycle=16 https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/jason-...

bediger4000 4y ago

Wait, Wall Street is actually in NYC,isn't it? I do not understand why papers do this kind of thing. Last year, the Denver Post had a headline "Lawless Hellhole" about the downtown Union Station transportation hub. It was a bogus headline, I walked through Union Station a few days after, people were sipping coffee on sidewalk tables, grandmothers were walking dogs. I think newspapers have spent 50 years trying to escape the screeches of "liberal media", and they've become conservative, so they end up hating the metro areas that have harbored and nutured them.

jfengel 4y ago
The Wall Street Journal has never been "liberal media", but since 2007 it has been owned by Rupert Murdoch. Its news coverage has always had that conservative tendency associated with the financial industry, but was (and mostly remains) a fairly reliable news source. Its opinion pages have become increasingly psychotic, like the rest of Murdoch's empire, pushing delusional right-wing fantasies. Many other "mainstream news sources" have indeed contorted themselves into surreal positions to avoid accusations of "liberal bias". It's possible that's what happened to the Denver Post. But this is just partisan propaganda, being bolstered by having its name attached to a newspaper with a good but rapidly tarnishing reputation.