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I'm generally center-left-leaning and a paying subscriber to the NYT and I've felt this way for years now. But still stuck because it is sadly still my main sou
by atonse 3y ago
I'm generally center-left-leaning and a paying subscriber to the NYT and I've felt this way for years now. But still stuck because it is sadly still my main source of news, but increasingly opinionated. And occasionally I find pieces on the economist and FT refreshingly just informative.
With the NYT, I've often found myself reading articles and checking 2-3 times if I'm accidentally reading an op-ed piece instead of an article due to the obvious bias (even if that bias happens to agree with my politics, I don't want the bias there... I just want the information).
Or finding that articles that would normally belong in the New Yorker or NY Times Magazine are in the main "newspaper" (if those distinctions even make sense anymore).
But occasionally they do good work. But that's increasingly rare.
- devilbunny 3y ago> Or finding that articles that would normally belong in the New Yorker or NY Times Magazine are in the main "newspaper" (if those distinctions even make sense anymore) Yeah. I recall seeing someone comment - quite some time ago, probably 20 years now - that the NYT was morphing from "slightly staid establishment mouthpiece" to "what upper-middle-class professional women want to read". My wife is a subscriber; QED? She reads the thing every day. I might glance at the homepage and read an article or two now and again, but I'd be perfectly fine with only a games subscription (the crossword is excellent, and Spelling Bee has helped me tremendously with anagramming).