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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas (defector.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26082031

The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

Fuck the NYT

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was the case long before Gulf wars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I don't recommend looking at their 1930s issues

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Follow the journalists. Block the paper.