NYT Contributors’ Letter

by FinnKuhn • 3 years ago

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ITB• 3 years ago

This is wild. I thought I was about to read a critique coming from a less leftist point of view, as the NYT is already fairly far left. It’s counter productive for groups that are directionally after the same goals to vilify each other. Anecdotally the left seems to be a worse perpetrator of this behavior. I suspect this is happening because the far left is so detached from the average American that the only group that will even entertain their argument have to have neighboring political views.

myrion• 3 years ago

The NYT is in no way far left. It's a fairly centrist, vaguely middle-right publication. They have the occasional leftist essay, but far more often their op-eds are very strangely right-wing.

I say strangely, because it's not very typical, afaict, but just occasionally someone feels the need to throw something really bizarre out there. Which is why there's several variations on things like the "NYT pitchbot" out there, making fun of how bizarre those are.

throwawayacc6• 3 years ago

The NYT is in no way far left. It's a fairly centrist, vaguely middle-right publication. They have the occasional leftist essay, but far more often their op-eds are very strangely right-wing.

This comment is so false and divorced from reality it may be some Russian/Chinese/etc. disinformation campaign: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

throwwaway8529• 3 years ago

NYT is firmly on the left side. This is the publication that brought us the 1619 Project.

watwut2• 3 years ago

This letter is criticizing bad journalism. Treatment of sources, omitting of facts etc. It also calls on ignoring established science and calling old treatments "new treatment" to make them sound more scary.

So, it is pretty difficult to figure put what you mean by "this behavior" and where "being in touch with average American" is supposed to be relevant. Being in touch with average American is specifically not relevant at all.

NYT Contributors’ Letter

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