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10-31-2013, 04:04 AM
I grew up with the print NYT.
It has held a close place to me for many years.
Now, it has started to lose favor.
I'm quick to jump on the wagon that says it sucks.
How have you noticed NYTimes sucking? Hopefully, they will read this and change their ways.
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10-31-2013, 04:12 AM
Do you mean "whack" like you are going to hit someone? Or "wack" like we used to say in NYC?
I tend to get my news from other news sources.
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10-31-2013, 04:24 AM
Their quality of writing is high, they cover most important topics, their coverage is prompt and overall it's a very good newspaper. But the tremendous amount of white knighting and feminism (not just limited to its columns like Modern Love and Opinions) - literally everywhere - ruins all of it. I've first dropped my subscription and now I've stopped reading the NYT entirely.
It's ironic - a newsaper might be accused of liberal bias, but there is no room for actual misleading. Poll numbers and speeches are always the same, no matter the comment that follows. But reporting on all sorts of gender issues - oh boy, false "studies" and "experts" are referenced at the speed of light. It's crazy.
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10-31-2013, 04:36 AM
I wouldn't say it has a liberal bias. It has its head so far up the establishment's ass I would say it has asshole bias. None of its articles on anything are remotely objective, they spin hard for whoever is in power, and they're politics are much more socialist than anything resembling traditional American political thought.
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10-31-2013, 05:57 AM
The website sucks because you can only read 10 articles a month for free. Then they want you to subscribe for $8 a month. It's annoying.
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10-31-2013, 07:25 AM
NYT is garbage. Well-written, though. Plus, at the risk of sounding like an anti-semite, I really detest it's pro-Israel, pro-Jewish spin on everything. And that's much of the American MSM, I'm afraid.
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10-31-2013, 08:06 AM
Quote: (10-31-2013 06:22 AM)JayMillz Wrote:
^^^^^^
Funny gif, but I agree ... no need to get emotional over a question of semantics, lol
I guess I'm a plebe, have heard of 'whack', 'wack', and even the unwisely underutilized 'wiggedy-whack'. I always thought 'wack' or 'wacker' was british for wanker.
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10-31-2013, 08:10 AM
Quote:Quote:
The website sucks because you can only read 10 articles a month for free. Then they want you to subscribe for $8 a month. It's annoying.
Delete the cookies from your browser and close all NYT tabs / windows...
(Always worked for me in Safari but I haven't read it in several months.)
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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10-31-2013, 09:46 AM
have had this exact argument, with dictionary links, the "i remember when", the "you didnt grow up in the 80's", but that one wasnt thrown out yet.
NYT still produces stellar content, but I get my news in chunks and bites from the web, tv, radio, etc, and I just dont have time to devote to it. The Sunday Times is really it, but its takes a whole day to literally devoir, and I would rather spend my Sunday at the pool, outside, working or sleeping off a hangover. It is deep reading, and a lot of the articles are fascinating and well researched and written. In a world where Business Insider and Drudge unfortunately becomes your default news source after spending all day on the web, its nice to know there still are well run newsrooms with actual professional writers and editors, not just recent graduate, quasi interns, pumping out click bait headlines, gawker/buzzfeed-esque machine written 'content' out to the masses, passing itself off to the world as actual newsrooms. Thats not to say the NYT is perfect, but if the only options are pumping out grumpy cat pics and false rape accusations, I will take the one with serious journalists any day, even if its losing money and harder to consume.
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10-31-2013, 09:48 AM
Quote: (10-31-2013 09:40 AM)Therapsid Wrote:
Quote: (10-31-2013 07:46 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Quote: (10-31-2013 07:25 AM)pavel_eskimoso Wrote:
NYT is garbage. Well-written, though. Plus, at the risk of sounding like an anti-semite, I really detest it's pro-Israel, pro-Jewish spin on everything. And that's much of the American MSM, I'm afraid.
How is there a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish spin in NYT? It has been spamming articles against Nentayahu and basically saying that Israel is currently completely in the wrong as far as its Palestine dispute goes. If that's "pro", I'd hate to see what counts as "con".
That's hilarious.
NYT is pro-Israel.
For example - the Times has a *policy* of only having correspondents to Israel who are themselves Jewish.
True. But it's more likely that even if the correspondent isn't Jewish, they must be passed through certain filters to ensure that they have internalized the general pro-Israel stance. Creepy Eel is right that the NYT will sometimes criticize certain aspects of Israeli policy. But those criticisms fall within what's *allowed* as far as the MSM is concerned. Chomsky wrote about this in Manufacturing Consent. The major news outlets, being the pussy-whipped corporate drones that they are, all agree on certain things: Israel is good, American foreign policy is benevolent, Russia is evil etc.