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Curious if there will be accusations that Consumer Reports is the latest to fall to the bribery of the oil and automobile industries, since I was told last time

• slantyyz 14y ago
  I doubt we'll see any claims of Tesla having logs to disprove the article. CR bought the car and probably didn't sign the waiver giving Tesla access to the car's data.
• saraid216 14y ago
  I thought that the issue last time was that Broder was tight with the oil people. I didn't pay that much attention, but it seemed a criticism specific to Broder rather than the NYT at large.
• jacques_chester 14y ago
  In respectable newspapers there is a strict separation between the editorial department and the classifieds and display advertising departments. In fact, even in less respectable newspapers this is generally true. I worked at a less respectable newspaper for several years; whenever I wandered into the editorial area I was treated as being slightly below toenail clippings in the order of creation. It's best to think of a newspaper as a device that multiplexes two totally independent feeds. One feed is ads and classifieds, the other is editorial material. Conspiracy theories to the contrary are just embarrassing. Really. Journalists are tremendously and fiercely proud of themselves (to a fault). Suggesting to a journalist at a serious newspaper that their writing is biased based on what the display department did last week is going to get a mix of reactions from laughter to a punch on the nose for uttering such inflammatory fighting words.