"'He might forget' is not enough to hang a country on."
Its extremist views like this that are going to destroy our nation. ;p
Alexandra Petri is courageous, Jeff Bezos is a scared little shit, spread the news.
As one who mostly read the comics on newspapers when they were a thing, this could be the much needed endorsement for that target audience.
This should be the very last piece of journalism that any one takes seriously from the Washington Post.
Both them and the NYT have shown their asses when it comes to just being propaganda mouth-pieces.
We need to re-democratize our culture, and get away from this world of billionaire possession of our cultural expression. They didn't make it, and its not something they can own if we don't allow it. We need to stop taking outlets like WP or NYT seriously.
NYT at least made the endorsement, the LA Times were the other cowards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024-endorsement.html
I'm not really sure what the New York Times has to do with this. WaPo is owned by a billionaire trying to hedge his bets if Trump wins and decides to take vengeance by breaking up Amazon.
NYT is fully independent.
Not sure what you mean with fully independent, but Wikipedia says "Though The New York Times Company is public, all voting shares are controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger Family Trust. "
It's owned by a wealthy family, and it's reflected in what they choose to report, and more importantly what not to report.
Heh.
I read the times nearly every day. Not sure what you mean by this. Can you expand? I find their reporting on trump to be pretty real. Their interview with John Kelly straight up calling trump a fascist is pretty damning. So…
They platform bad people with op ed, legitimizing the ideas
They don't consume the main stream media. And that's a great thing because then you can make up whatever you want about what they've said or not said in order to confirm whatever belief you have about them.
I can’t say for certain what they mean, but while their Trump coverage is solid, many people take issue with the way they are covering the Israel-Palestine conflict.
On another note, while I believe the John Kelly interview should be damning, if you believe it will make any difference you are living in a fantasy world.
While I don’t necessarily disagree with either of your points, neither of them have anything to do with what I was responding to.
That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see...
This is why I cancelled my subscription and switched to NYT. I need to be able to trust my news source, and I can't trust the post if all it took was a call from Bezos for them to bow and kneel.
I found the NYT's sanewashing of Trump irresponsible, so I took my WaPo subscription to The Guardian. It's a sad reflection on the US when a foreign paper has better reporting than any domestic source.
The Guardian is my next choice if NYT doesn't impress. That said, I tip The Guardian very often, so I probably send more money their way than if I had a subscription.
And to lie about their reasons for doing so to their readers.
This is why I cancelled my subscription and switched to NYT. I need to be able to trust my news source
Guess you're ignoring their genocide apologia and their constant pro-cop propaganda, then..
Oh oh, don’t forget about vocalization of anti-transgender viewpoints: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/new-york-times-bias-reporting-transgender-people/
I need integrity.
Carrying water for a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is indicative of a lot of things. Integrity isn't one of them. Same goes for repeating whatever cops tell them to say.
I also respect a bad take far more than silence and cowardice in the face of adversity
There's honest bad takes and there's spreading deceptive misinformation. When it comes to Israel, cops, and other things that the establishment likes much more than the population in general, the NYT is constantly doing the latter at refusing to issue corrections.
As I have commented before, subscriptions are easy to cancel. I iust got this one, I'll read it and make my own mind if it is for me or not. For the moment, the only thing I have to make my decision is the irrefutable fact that the LA Times and the Washington Post both knelt down and ate the ass of their billionaire owners on request.
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