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NYT is good for games and cooking. Their news editors are garbage.
by breakyerself 8mo ago
NYT is good for games and cooking. Their news editors are garbage.
- tptacek 8mo agoWhen did you last subscribe?
- testdelacc1 8mo agoNot the other commenter, but I subscribed till November 2024. Am I allowed to say that they're garbage?
- tptacek 8mo agoYou can say whatever you'd like! It's just a useful data point. Current subscribers, former subscribers, and non-subscribers have different takes.
- guelo 8mo agoI was a subscriber until last year. They produce outstanding journalism with the exception of their Zionist pro-war bias, which I was ok ignoring until my disgust with their genocide whitewashing became too much.
- g8oz 8mo agoSame
- diffs 8mo agoHave you considered, and hear me out here, that the bias is yours? I mean if their reporting about everything but this one topic is good, perhaps their “Zionist pro-war bias” and “genocide whitewashing” only seem that way to you because you’ve assumed an extremist position on the issue?
- tptacek 8mo agoIt's not a reason I myself would rely on to end a subscription but I'm glad for the data point and don't see the point in cross-examining. I'm thankful they took the time to answer my question.
- diffs 8mo agoYou’re right, tptacek, I probably should’ve stayed out of this.
- kmote00 8mo agoI'm glad you didn't. Your reasoning was perfectly sound. The fact that your answer got downvoted is simply further evidence that there are those who want to hold a position without genuinely considering the arguments in favor of the alternate position.
- guelo 8mo agoThis is so condescending. You assume that your side has considered the opposing arguments and the other side has not and that is why they hold the wrong position.
- profsummergig 8mo agoAlso, it seems there are a lot of paid posts on NYT. Recently, both NYT and WP had front page articles about a book by some billionaire's daughter whose husband cheated on her. They seemed like puff-PR posts.
- epistasis 8mo agoThis sort of nearly open corruption at NYT is worthy of a Trump operation, to be honest. When Kanye West bought a full-page ad apologizing for his anti-semitisim upon release of a new album, he apparently also bought a full-on legitimate looking "news" article to go with it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/arts/music/ye-kanye-west-apology-antisemitism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/arts/music/ye-kanye-west-... This is the same newspaper that has reporters bragging on Twitter that they shouldn't have to report on major economic news, like the broad effects of the Inflation Reduction Act, because they don't need to report on anything that would benefit Biden. Apparently Biden didn't pay off the right people at the NYTimes.
- tptacek 8mo agoYou get that the economics underlying these claims about buying articles don't make much sense, right? The whole point of the NYT is that the newsfeed isn't the core business.
- epistasis 8mo agoThe newsfeed doesn't need to be the core business for NYTimes to sell full-page advertisements, nor does it need to be the core business to sell stories on preferred topics.
- tptacek 8mo agoSure. They could sell a lot of things that aren't core to their business. But why would they? Their next marginal dollar doesn't come from squeezing the news organization; in fact, the way things are trending, news is basically looking like it'll be a loss leader for them.
- groundzeros2015 8mo agoIt’s either a crossword or a religion.