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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas (defector.com)
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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The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated.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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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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

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