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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]

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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      231·
      24 hours ago

      People seem to have either forgot or just not know the NYT has always had a neocon, jingoist, America BEST superiority complex when it comes to anything approaching ‘foreign policy’.

      Does… everyone remember when they spent a whole lot of time amplifying the Bush admin’s bogus claims and outright lies justifying the GWOT, Iraq invasion 2 electric boogaloo?

      Hyped up the ‘threat’ from Iran, to functionally make Obama and the Dems seem weak on foreign policy?

      And that’s just in my lifetime…

      Any whoosie, I’m sure that’s all just a coincidence and is in no way related to the CIA’s vast, documented history of involvement in and manipulation of US domestic media publications.

      • Monstrosity@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        22 hours ago

        Judith Miller sucks.

        From Wikipedia:

        Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948)[1] is an American journalist and commentator who is known for writing about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, but her writings were later discovered to have been based on fabricated intelligence.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      288·
      1 day ago

      The weird part is that they’re not; NYT does a lot of good journalism, sometimes even on Palestine, but then they go around and pull shit like this.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        51·
        16 hours ago

        If there were a doctor that saves 99% of his patients but actively kills every 100th then that isnt a very good doctor.

        For a newspaper the acceptable frequency of lying about and protecting genocidal maniacs is zero. If you fail this absolute basic level of journalistic dilligence your entire newspaper becomes worthless.

      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        333·
        1 day ago

        Were ypu around for the invasion of Iraq in 2003? Maybe the elections in 2024? The NYT has been a dedicated propaganda source attempting to direct the conversation more than it tries to inform for decades now.

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        6·
        20 hours ago

        The best journalists that worked for the NYT are journalists fired from the NYT. There was a great list of them somewhere.

      • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
        141·
        1 day ago

        Do you remember Judith Miller and the leading role the NYT took lying the US into the war in Iraq? Whatever “good” journalism the NYT does, it’s just to buy them the legitimacy they need to spread the lies that matter.

      • mmhmm@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        I’m with you. Great journalists doing vital reporting around the world. However, the Times as a company is shit, the editorials as garbage, and the prioritization of stories is neocon AF

        News is a critical industry; like anything it is corruptible and in a capitalist system corruption via greed is inevitable