> no budget for reporters that can only afford intern level experience glorified bloggers (Edit: apparently I didn't quite understand the parent; see dylan604'

> no budget for reporters that can only afford intern level experience glorified bloggers (Edit: apparently I didn't quite understand the parent; see dylan604's comment below.) Do you mean the NY Times? They have a large budget and if you read the bios of their reporters and opinion writers, you will see they have extensive experience, the top of their field. Edit: As a random selection, here's the first name on the top headline: https://www.nytimes.com/by/joe-rennison https://www.nytimes.com/by/joe-rennison I have been a financial journalist for more than a decade. I began my career at a magazine called Risk, digging into the details of legislation introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, from rules around how much capital banks should hold to changes in the market for derivatives that had helped inflate the credit bubble that led to the Great Recession. I moved to The Financial Times in 2015 to cover the more complex corners of markets, such as sliced and diced structured bonds, before branching out to write about interest rates, debt and the stock market. I left the FT as the paper’s deputy U.S. markets editor and joined The Times in 2022. I graduated in 2010 with a degree in philosophy, logic and scientific method from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Here's the currently top listed opinion author: https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-l-friedman https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-l-friedman Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s foreign affairs Opinion columnist in 1995. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989 and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He has written several other books, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” an international best seller. Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a master’s in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. His column appears every Sunday and Wednesday.