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Also, 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 husban

Also, 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 ago
This 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 ago
  You 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 ago
    The 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 ago
      Sure. 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.
      - epistasis 8mo ago
        They are already selling ads, why would you think they wouldn't be raising revenue on the news side? Your argument that they wouldn't take money if it's not coming from the "core business" does not make sense economically. If your argument is that they wouldn't sell editorial selection of article topics, well, they did it publicly when they decided to report on the sale of a full page ad. Placement of articles on topics selected from the outside is usually far more discreet, with the proper PR firms mediating the selection, but the NYTimes is notorious for doing this.
- hulitu 8mo ago
  > This sort of nearly open corruption at NYT is worthy of a Trump operation, to be honest. It has nothing to do with Trump anf more to do with the 3 letter agencies control of the media. This sort of stuff is going on since a long time.

epistasis 8mo ago

This 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 ago
You 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 ago
  The 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 ago
    Sure. 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.
    - epistasis 8mo ago
      They are already selling ads, why would you think they wouldn't be raising revenue on the news side? Your argument that they wouldn't take money if it's not coming from the "core business" does not make sense economically. If your argument is that they wouldn't sell editorial selection of article topics, well, they did it publicly when they decided to report on the sale of a full page ad. Placement of articles on topics selected from the outside is usually far more discreet, with the proper PR firms mediating the selection, but the NYTimes is notorious for doing this.
hulitu 8mo ago
> This sort of nearly open corruption at NYT is worthy of a Trump operation, to be honest. It has nothing to do with Trump anf more to do with the 3 letter agencies control of the media. This sort of stuff is going on since a long time.