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No, it bleeds into their reporting as well. The NYTimes has the same problem, a right wing editorial department that is constantly interfering with and undermin
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
No, it bleeds into their reporting as well. The NYTimes has the same problem, a right wing editorial department that is constantly interfering with and undermining their news coverage. The FT doesn’t have these problems.
- hhghghd 3y agoIf you think NYT has a right wing editorial department then you really are left wing as they come. I can only imagine how left wing FT's editorial department is.
- wolverine876 3y agoEdit: assuming the parent wasn't changed, I misread it and I'm correcting this comment. Sorry. Re: the NYT's editorial department: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661650
- hhghghd 3y agoWho are you quoting? Why?
- wolverine876 3y agoI think I misread your comment, unless you updated it. I updated mine.
- hhghghd 3y agoI didn't update it. I am quoting GP in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661339
- wolverine876 3y agoThe WSJ opinion side is uniformly conservative and pro-GOP / anti-Dem/liberal. The NYT is very different: They cover the spectrum, from Ross Douthat who is pretty far right, (edit: to David French, rational religious right) to Brett Stephens (former WSJ opinion page editor) to David Brooks (more center-right), and more. The notable exception is no pro-Trump writers, but they are not bound to publish lies and nonsense. Progressives think the NYT is a corporate tool. I wonder what the far right thinks of the WSJ.
- ghaff 3y agoHaving some visibility into the WSJ... it's conservative but not MAGA.
- wolverine876 3y agoWhat does the MAGA and associated crowd think of the WSJ, if you happen to know?
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- ghaff 3y agoAbsent much visibility into the MAGA crowd, I suspect most view it as very corporatist vs. populist whether they articulate it as such or not.
- ghaff 3y agoThat's pretty funny given the traditional knock on big paper journalism was how left-wing they were. (They were/are very mainstream whatever that means.)
- bugglebeetle 3y agoAs with our political parties, there are no left wing papers in the United States, at least not by the accounting of the median developed democracy. They may run individual stories of a particular bent, but the NYTimes overall is a right wing news source. One need only consider how they handled the Iraq War or pander to conservative moral panics around trans people for this to be obvious, and I’m speaking specifically to their so-called reporting on these issues, separate from the editorial department. The NYTimes is also wildly anti-union and routinely engages in intimidation tactics against its staff, eliminated their public oversight editor position, among many other egregious examples.
- weow 3y ago> pander to conservative moral panics around trans people There are legitimate discussions to be had about whether the replacement of female-only spaces with therapeutic venues for gender-dysphoric males is a reasonable policy goal, particularly when the negative impacts upon women and girls is considered. It's not a "conservative moral panic" to have these discussions.