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[benji]

The NYT has completely lost my trust. I was critical of them before but have always appreciated when they do produce good reporting. Their behavior the last week is inexcusable. Then there's the article from the right wing religious monarchist telling people to not vote even though he votes. And as I linked above, they're even trying to make being a felon sound less severe.

In addition to that, the pundit class has lost their minds.

I've been getting better coverage from the Guardian because it actually offers analyses of what's going on politically. I would never condemn all mainstream press, but I will limit which news sources I read.

As I said before, some of the best coverage and analysis is scattered across dozens of substacks.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-44?post=125526132#post-125526132

They lost your trust because you don't know the difference between editorial/opinion and reporting which at the NYT (and all major papers) are completely siloed with the newsroom editor having no say over editorial and vice versa?

Please note that I'm saying something different and nuanced from the idea that media isn't biased. I think all media is biased and it's on all individuals to understand the bias and read it critically. This is why I have no problem believing and linking to openly right-wing sources or Fox News, I expect people to understand their bias and weigh it accordingly. The reason I don't do this for accounts Nintex uses for sources is because the problem isn't their ideological bias, it's their stupidity, ignorance and dishonesty. (If your takeaway from the Dominion lawsuit is that Fox News always lies, you missed why the lawsuit wasn't immediately dismissed and Fox had to pay out the nose, which is that they don't but they looked the other way about a few of their anchors refusing to follow typical institutional standards. But you're an idiot if you didn't already know this about people like Hannity and if you don't think all the non-Fox anchors don't do this because they are rarely taken to court.) This idiots problem is that he believed the tales the NYT and other media sources told about themselves, he refused to be skeptical or critical and now he's mad about it that they've crossed him personally so he's abolishing them from his sources. Which it should be noted is exactly what MAGA has been saying about Fox News for the last four years for the crime of calling Arizona for Biden. This has only led them into blatantly worse sources like OANN, Newsmax and catturd2.

The belief that the NYT is somehow biased in a pro-Trump and pro-Republicans direction is absurd, that doesn't mean they don't feel it important to report and share opinions from those people because knowing your enemy is incredibly important. While I think the NYT is, like all media except a handful of exceptions, pro-Democrat, I do not believe this is actually their major bias. That bias is mostly shared by all journalists and trickles down into most people who believe they are being objectively informed by media blind to the advocacy and assumptions underlying the entire methodology. (Which is ironic because these morons tell me they're always uncovering these ideologies when they find the answer to everything is the same: an elaborate centuries old conspiracy to perpetuate capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.)