The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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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  • 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