is it called a public editor https://t.co/7SRcH5tMNd
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 27, 2021
Congrats to @DougJBalloon
— David (@RollingPrez2390) September 26, 2021
Ah, the heroic Mr. Sulzberger. Margaret Sullivan — now doing great work at the Washington Post — silently congratulates herself on not having to defend this bullshit. Per Vanity Fair:
… The initiative was unveiled on September 15 in a slick press release introducing a 10-person “cross-functional” team that includes three journalists from the newsroom—newly acquired former Politico executive editor Paul Volpe, veteran media reporter Edmund Lee, and senior Culture editor Susanna Timmons—plus staffers from product, design, marketing, and audience insights. It’s part of a supercharged standards operation that’s been expanding under the aegis of Cliff Levy, one of the Times’ highest-ranking newsroom figures and someone whose name has been bandied about in the succession sweepstakes. It was described to me as “such a signature thing for the publisher” and “one of his biggest priorities right now.” The announcement raised eyebrows in media circles, but it also left many scratching their heads, with boilerplate such as “developing innovative ways of deepening our audience’s trust in our mission and in the credibility of our journalism, no matter where it is encountered.” What does that mean?…
The more people outside of coastal bubbles like New York, Washington, and L.A. who trust the Times and understand its mission, the more subscribers the Times can potentially net. The goal is 10 million paying readers by 2025; at the end of the second quarter, there were 7,936,000, including 7,133,000 digital-only subscribers. As a third source with knowledge of the project put it, part of the idea is “to broaden the Times’ readership and make sure that the Times is innovating. Broader means all kinds of readers, including politically. But we need more young readers, we need more readers of color, more who are middle class or lower class, and so on.”
The trust-and-innovation project is one of several major newsroom initiatives unfolding as the clock officially begins to tick down on the Times’ executive-editor succession. Dean Baquet, who’s been in the job since 2014, turned 65 on Tuesday. Executive editors traditionally step down by the end of their 65th year, but there’s speculation that Sulzberger wants Baquet to stick around longer than that…
The high-dollar blathering will continue until morale [paid subs] improves! The company still has some of the best, most experienced actual reporters in the world, a deep reserve of trust, and the physical infrastructure to change for the better. But doing so would mean admitting that Sulzberger and his cadres of corner-office enablers were other than Totally Correct & Cutting-Edge on All Topics of Import, so…
i mean, the times did (briefly) entertain the idea that they were not immune from criticism when they had margaret sullivan as their public editor, and she did the job so well that they made sure they’d never allow anything like that again, so you could say i’m skeptical
— BESTCOASTMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) September 24, 2021
Lapassionara
I’m tired of this cant.
Jerzy Russian
A good way to make sure your newspaper does not suck is to write content for it that does not suck. Is there any indication that this is part of the plan?
craigie
I’m intrigued only by the idea that they may feel that maybe they suck, and have to do something about it.
On the other hand, probably not. Instead, it’s just “how do we get more subscribers?’ without ever really answering that question.
Elizabelle
Fuck the fucking Sulzbergers.
Keek
If he hit birthday 65 then his 65th year is passed.
geg6
HAHAHAHA! I’m laughing because this has to be a joke, right?
sdhays
I’m someone who would probably be a subscriber if so much of their political coverage wasn’t so awful. Somehow, I doubt that they want to expand their subscriber base by going after be like me.
Betty
I am surprised they put low income folks on their list. I doubt these folks can fit a NYT subscription into their budget.
zhena gogolia
Doesn’t it sound as if they’re trying to “correct” in the wrong direction? Gaining the trust of the guys in the diner in Rolla, MO?
dr. bloor
Wait, what?
Roger Moore
@Jerzy Russian:
Strictly speaking, the problem isn’t a lack of non-sucky content; it’s the presence of sucky content. The underlying problem is that doing badly enough in one critical department- political coverage- is enough to undo all the good work done elsewhere in the paper. It’s really the paradox of the NYT. They have these really fantastic straight news reporters, some of the best in the business and worthy of the paper’s excellent reputation. On the other hand, they have political coverage* that appears completely disconnected from that excellent coverage and seems to undermine it.
*And some non-political coverage, especially in their lifestyle sections, that shows a complete disconnect from the way most of the country, and probably most of their readers, live.
PsiFighter37
I don’t understand why the NYT feels it is its mission to interview random racist white people in the middle of Bumblefuck. It’s the paper for New York Fucking City. That doesn’t mean you have to print every single thought that comes across Charles Blow’s mind (his last editorial was severely myopic IMO), but you are a paper for the biggest city in this country, and one that happens to be not only highly liberal, but one that, for the its target audience (rich white people on the Upper East and Upper West Sides), have traveled to enough of these shitholes to know they don’t want to live in, or spend much time in, those places.
Anyways – just another step in decline and fall. I can’t wait to see Dean Baquet and his clique of clowns interview GOP primary contestants, if there are any to Cheeto, in 2024.
Mathguy
Betting we will just see more of these fecal bombs.
Roger Moore
@zhena gogolia:
I don’t think that’s what they’re really doing. The aren’t trying to gain the trust of the guys in a diner in the midwest. They’re trying to prove they aren’t just a provincial paper interested only in the coastal elite. Of course they’re mostly interested in the midwestern elite rather than the run-of-the-mill midwesterner, but proving they are in touch with the whole country is essential.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty:
No joke. Annual newspaper subscriptions and home deliveries tend to be hundreds of dollars. It ain’t cheap
@zhena gogolia:
Well, they can’t interview Biden voters. That would be boorrring!
FlyingToaster
I’m going on record that this is a justification to ramp up the fascism in their coverage. The next Charlottesville Tiki March will have the FTFNYT front page praising the Tiki carriers.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@PsiFighter37:
That’s a good point. It is the New York Times. It sure seems to focus more on national news than local news on it’s front page
mrmoshpotato
@dr. bloor: In Illinois, we understand their mission – trashing liberals and paying David Fucking Brooks a ton of money to write the same bullshit week after week.
Just Chuck
Guessing this means there’s going to be a dedicated Cletus Safari section.
Major Major Major Major
@PsiFighter37: We already have two papers, we don’t need the Times.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Major Major Major Major:
Not a New Yorker. What are the other two, M^4?
Redshift
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
They’re not going for home deliveries across the country. Those exist, but it’s not going to be an expanding market. They mean digital subscriptions (which also aren’t cheap for lower-income people, but it’s not as ludicrous a prospect.)
Rand Careaga
The NYT still does some magnificent long-form journalism (Defense Exhibit A: The Jungle Prince of Delhi), but its political reporting has sucked for decades.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Roger Moore: yes, this. As far just data goes on any given the topic the NYT is just the best in the MSM, yet when it comes to politics it goes out of it’s way to ignore it’s own reporting.
The whole “we want to appeal outside our bubble” is also strange because presumably not-crazies in the Midwest want news of what’s going on outside their communities. Sounds like they are trying to reach the unreachable.
NotMax
Inside baseball. Pfeh.
Jim Appleton
@mrmoshpotato: is there a problem with that?
//s
Ohio Mom
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
There’s lots of local coverage in the Times, everything from the city’s politics to human interest to local restaurant reviews, but generally the front pages are reserved for what’s deemed the most significant news.
One of the questions I rue not asking the oldsters in my Jewish New York family, all loyal Times readers and now all gone, is what they made of the Times reporting on Hitler’s Germany. The Times is rather famous for playing down those um, events.
bbleh
So now the Paper of Record, whose record and reputation speaks for itself, needs a PR team?
Verily, the Gray Lady doth protest too much.
Redshift
It does make you wonder how much more “trust” they’d have from all of these audiences if they could manage to cover politics in a straight-news form, no horse race and who’s up/down speculation, no cletus safaris, etc. I’d be happier if they dumped all their regular politics columnists (I’m sure Krugman wouldn’t have any trouble getting published somewhere else), but if all that was clearly opinion and didn’t have any influence on the news coverage, it would be more ignorable.
Kristine
When I unsubscribed, I wrote that I had hung on as long as I could for the sake of the science reporting but that the political journalism sank them. That said, the price jump didn’t help. $17/month is steep, especially when WaPo is only $9.99.
Gin & Tonic
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): New York Post and New York Daily News. Former famous for its headline “Headless Body in Topless Bar”; latter famous for its headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
That big Bund rally in 1939 wasn’t held in Madison Square Garden by coincidence.
Just sayin’.
Jeffro
This all makes perfect sense…IF you’re an NYT editor/business manager/whomever that feels the following are all true:
I see at least 6 maybe 7 problems within those 3 short statements. Good luck, NYT!
Redshift
“Across political lines” is really the tell. In a sane world, the way to deal with that would be to report the truth as best as you’re able, and if there are people who say it’s political because they don’t like the truth, fuckem.
But saying you’ll try to appeal “across political lines” means once again trying the hopeless task of trying to say things just right so that people whose tribe tells them you’re politically biased liars who look down on them and are trying to destroy the country will decide to trust you, and if that means both-sidesing the truth and pissing off the people who are inclined to trust you, well, where else are they gonna go?
eddie blake
@PsiFighter37: i dunno what makes you think nyc is a “highly liberal” city. we’ve got liberal sections and liberal people, but every borough has deep red area codes, queens is conservative as fuck, staten island is cop land and we’re the city of wall street
Jeffro
@Kristine: wow.
as far as I can tell, my subscription is still something like $4/month (academic rate). No recipes but I do get the rest of it.
If it was any higher, I’d bolt in a heartbeat.
James E Powell
The NYT is looking at the Trump hordes willing to die in order to own the libs and they want that kind of loyalty in their readers. Everybody panders to the right-wing, racist assholes because they are fanatically loyal.
Jeffro
Exactly, great point.
PsiFighter37
@Major Major Major Major: NY Post doesn’t count, NY Daily News isn’t much better, and Newsday is for B&Ters from Long Island. Don’t even mention the NY Sun or whatever rag that dumbshit Jared Kushner owned (NY Observer?). The NYT is the paper of NYC.
Jeffro
Now THERE is a mental image: someone willing to guzzle ivermectin once the NYT gives the go-ahead.
A Venn diagram that looks like a blank sheet of paper. =)
phdesmond
@Jeffro:
i’m on for free because i’m the guest of a paid subscriber (who’s a NYC resident).
Ohio Mom
@NotMax: The oldsters in my family, on both sides, were world class grudge holders, yet they apparently forgave the Times.
pajaro
Agree with the rest of you. Obviously, most of this is to maximize revenue, but, I’m afraid to say, some of it seems to be positioning the newspaper to be able to be relevant if “you know who” comes back into power. They really are failing us. It’s pathetic that we will increasingly need to rely on the paper of record owned by the world’s richest man (or one of the world’s richest men), but we are where we are.
brendancalling
I stopped reading the FTNYT a few years back and it’s been great.
Geminid
@FlyingToaster: The organizer of the August 11, 2017 tiki torch march faces a civil trial in Charlottesville next month. Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have been sued by victims of that nights violence and the horrible car attack the next day. After years of footdragging and obstruction by defendents, Sines v. Kessler will be tried in a federal court October 25-November 19.
Another Scott
“The NYTimes is garbage.” – Baud.
Meanwhile, … Wonkette:
And there’s even more.
Totally normal, I’m sure.
Grrr….
Cheers,
Scott.
TriassicSands
@sdhays:
It’s worth subscribing for the non-political content. Then, maybe it will still exist if and when it s political coverage improves.
Ghost of Joe Liebling*s Dog
The Credibility Project, Part the N-teenth, “This Time For Real? … Naah”
Major Major Major Major
@eddie blake: mayoral primary really threw the various tribes into stark relief, that was cool. And of course the conservative ultimately eked out a win over the technocrat
eddie blake
@Major Major Major Major: yup.
Redshift
The thing is, I don’t begrudge them the effort to expand their subscriber base. I know something about what the newspaper business is like these days, and subscribers are what everyone’s going for, because the crap revenue digital ads pay is not enough to keep the business going and pay decent salaries to the people who produce even the non-sucky parts.
But the description of this initiative suggests they still think the people away from the coasts are exotic and mysterious, requiring special handling, which is the same mentality that produced the cletus safari. There’s no way that attitude is going to produce a result that’s good for anyone. The post-mortem analyzing why it failed almost writes itself.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Vanity Fair via Anne Laurie @ Top:
It means: “Finding new ways to bullshit people.”
phdesmond
they’ve wasted money in their day — buying and selling the boston globe.
Kristine
@Jeffro: I didn’t get recipes, either. At least not all of them. That was a little aggravating, too.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
Ah. Thanks!
@Redshift:
Yup. The digital subscription is still crazy expensive as a commenter in this thread mentioned. 17/mo is like 200 something dollars a year
Geminid
@Another Scott: Noem could be riding for a fall. In 2018, she beat Democrat Billie Sutton by less than 12,000 out of 339,000 votes cast. Noem has already caught flack for the way she misuses state airplanes. Between Noem’s abuse of power and her self-promotion, South Dakotans might decide next year to elect a Governor who isn’t using them as stepping stones.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Anne Laurie @ Top:
Does it?
My trust in the NY Times, pretty high in the early 90’s, started declining with Whitewater and the 2000 campaign, then fell pretty fast in the run-up to invading Iraq, and became fully depleted during the 2016 Presidential campaign.
I have nothing left for the Times, no reserve of trust at all. I live in Manhattan, and my go-to paper anymore is WaPo – not the Times.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way about The NY Times now.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ohio Mom:
Seriously. The parodies people were posting of the Times lavishing praise on Hitler a few days ago were not an exaggeration. 1930s NYT reporters just wanted to visit Hitler’s mountaintop castle
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Major Major Major Major:
I take it you don’t like the new NYC mayor? I’ve read he has some connections to shady people
Geminid
@Major Major Major Major: I thought it interesting that Congressmen Jeffries and Meeks both endorsed Maya Wiley as first choice, and Eric Adams as second. I don’t really know what that means, but it was interesting, and might have made a difference in such a close election.
James E Powell
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
I followed the same path as you. I did not understand then and I do not understand now the vendetta against the Clintons, but that’s when I started losing any trust in their reporting.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
Been meaning to ask since you’re a Virginia resident IIRC, how do you feel about McAuliffe’s chances this fall?
divF
@Jeffro:
Geminid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think McAuliffe will win by 5 points or more. But that’s just my gut feeling, based on the last few statewide election outcomes. Virginia has been under Democratic Governors for over seven years now, and is doing well economically, so I don’t think there is too much discontent among voters.
scav
Judging from the quantity of bejargoned buzzed-action-meme-plans, I think they’ve got a parasitic infestation of MBA-motivational-consultants.
Major Major Major Major
@Geminid: Adams has deep roots with NY machine politics. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/eric-adams-allies-nyc-mayoral-race.html
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): lol, speaking of which.
He’ll be weird, that’s all I know for sure. Has to beat the gang leader with sixteen cats first though.
Mary G
@scav: Yep, I smell a major operation from McKinsey to help generate so much bullshit.
Geminid
@Major Major Major Major: What did you think of the ranked choice voting system? I was surprised they allowed so many choices. I would have had just two or three. But they didn’t ask me, I’m not sure why.
Poe Larity
Blogs who fired their ombudsmen shouldn’t cast stones.
What if Baud used a top 10000 blog to overthrow Democracy? Who would stand in the way?
eddie blake
@Lacuna Synecdoche: yup, totally agree. i’m in brooklyn. i wouldn’t use the times to line my litter boxes. wapo all the way. true, they step on their dicks every once in a while, but the times has made stepping on their own dicks their mission-statement.
Major Major Major Major
@Geminid: I like it! Better than first past the post but not without problems, and the Board of Elections handled it atrociously.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@zhena gogolia: I grew up in Rolla, and I promise you that ain’t happening.
Geminid
@Major Major Major Major: Gothamist magazine put out an article a few days after the election, describing the relative strength of the top candidates in different neighborhoods and Boroughs. They said Adams ran strong in Black and Latino neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and Garcia was strongest in Manhattan.
Major Major Major Major
@Geminid: As I recall, the picture got more complicated once mail-ins were all included, but yeah, that was the overall pattern. Wiley did well in the gentrifying areas.
TriassicSands
The Times political coverage is generally poor. But there is a lot to read in the Times that is excellent. If all one is after is political reporting, then skip the Times. But political coverage is not the entirety of life, and there is so much more to read about than Joe and Mitch. I think it’s worth noting that outside of the B-J bubble many, possibly even most, Democrats agree with the Times approach. That disappoints, even sickens me, but this is not a progressive country in any meaningful sense of the word. The “average” Democrat, who certainly doesn’t read the Times, is far too poorly informed to be reliably progressive.
If I were the Post’s fact checker, I’d give the quoted sentence 3 Pinocchios.
If the Times still exists when Sulzberger and the execrable Dean Baquet are gone, perhaps their successors will get behind better political coverage. If the paper no longer exists, it will be a significant net loss.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@James E Powell: It’s one thing to go on a Cletus safari, but Cletus had no business being elected to the presidency and bringing his bossy wife and her cankles, and all his hillbilly crew with him to the White House!
They didn’t much like Jimmy Carter either. And you’ll recall their reaction to Al Gore. The outlander Ford was tolerated, as he was a good Republican spear carrier.
Sure Lurkalot
I couldn’t take anymore and quit in 2019 after 25 years. I must be a slow learner. At one time I got digital plus the Sunday paper and it got up to $600 per year.
I miss the crossword, Cooking and magazine. They’ve offered a half price deal for Cooking and I’ve thought about it just to download a bunch but I can’t bring myself to give them more money.
Nettoyeur
@Rand Careaga: access journalism emasculates political coverage at the NYT
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue team
@mrmoshpotato: very well said
NotMax
@Sure Lurkalot
No subscription and I’ve never had the slightest problem accessing recipes there.
piratedan
Hi! NYT Management here! Listen, we’d really like you all to like us once again, but you know, deep in our hearts of hearts, we’re really just financial prostitutes who like to cover all of the bases because EVERYONE has money and to ensure that we maximize our efforts, we’ll suck up to anyone who has the cash to make it lucrative to do so.. if you middle class and educated people weren’t so adept at finding other sources, you’d like us just fine and you know its true; why let a little thing like fascism get in the way of your crossword puzzle?
Anoniminous
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
It really means the Times plans to collaboratively engineer leading-edge value, monotonectally foster multidisciplinary infrastructures, and continually incentivize cutting-edge information services.
And they did it all through the magic of The Corporate B.S. Generator. A necessary tool in today’s high pace synergistic Business ecology to proactively morph high-payoff portals.
Ms. Deranged in AZ
Instead of interviewing Covidiots in diners the Times should be talking to people like me. My ex died last night and my poor son is in shock. How about paying attention to the millions of voters who rejected TFG and are survivors of this horrible pandemic. That’s the reality for a significant portion of the US. Appealing across the aisle, coddling people like my ex, is ridiculous and not a worthy goal of a news source who wishes to inspire trust.
Another Scott
@TriassicSands: They have had some really bad reporting outside of politics too – in economics, science and technology, foreign coverage, etc., but my brain isn’t coughing up specific examples. We’ve talked about them here in the last year or so. An organization that covers US politics so badly has deep issues that show up in everything it touches.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ascap_scab
@dr. bloor: Stand by for more hot takes from Ohio Diners and Louisville Applebees.
Chetan Murthy
@Roger Moore:
AKA Poujadist, petit bourgeoisie, the Fascist base. One-truck contractors, two-restaurant chain owners, car dealership owners, etc. Joe Bageant (_Deer Hunting with Jesus_) had their number.
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
Sure Lurkalot
@NotMax: I cannot access a NYT recipe without hitting a paywall, so you must be charmed.
Scamp Dog
@divF: I love the Continental Op stories, and that’s one my favorite lines!
Chetan Murthy
@Sure Lurkalot: Do you use adblockers? I’m using UBlock Origin. Care to share a link that doesn’t work? I could try it and let you know what I see.
Another Scott
https://reut.rs/3uhymlI
Biden may have an important opportunity to change the thinking and culture at that important institution…
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
Is the Count back home?
AP – Earthquake in Crete on Monday.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Chetan Murthy
@Sure Lurkalot: A friend once noted that recipes aren’t copyrighted — only the text around them. Which results in many people copying recipes from other sites, and without attribution. So for instance, I found a feta-brined roast chicken recipe that had originally come form FTFNYT, but on food52: https://food52.com/recipes/69859-melissa-clark-s-feta-brined-roast-chicken
Anne Laurie
It was explicitly reported when they bought the Globe that they did so to ‘kill the competition’ — so that the NYTimes would become the must-read paper for Boston / New England residents who wouldn’t buy the Boston Herald to wrap fish, much less read. They succeeded in ‘breaking’ the Globe’s home delivery services, but they couldn’t convince us Hub dwellers that Seventh Avenue was the center of the intellectual universe.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Ms. Deranged in AZ:
Sorry to hear about your ex. Condolences to your son and you.
eclare
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: Oh gosh, I’m so sorry.
NotMax
@Ms. Deranged in AZ
Philosophically and/or behaviorally flawed as he may have been (based on clues you’ve dropped here in the past), no one ought to suffer such a final fate.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Who?
Steeplejack (phone)
Get your rage gland prepped for the morning!
JWR
Haven’t finished up the last thread, and haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but hooray for us now permanent CA mail-in ballot voters!
frosty
@Lacuna Synecdoche: I’m a Baltimore exile and thus hate everything about DC but now rely on the WaPo. Ugh.
Mary G
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: I’m so sorry.
Sure Lurkalot
@Chetan Murthy:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019085-beef-stroganoff
I use AdBlocker Plus. Thanks for offering assistance!
NotMax
@Sure Lurkalot
Just went straight to your link. Screenshot.
Which browser do you use?
Me: Firefox, Adblocker Plus, cookies disabled, javascript disabled.
Mary G
I’m psyched for this book:
prostratedragon
@Another Scott: That will be interesting to watch, considering that Biden’s Treasury Secretary is a former BOG Chair. Powell, a lawyer and not an economist, was expected to be more of a conservative drag on Yellen’s board than he came around to being during her tenure, which included the aftermath of the housing bubble bursting.
prostratedragon
@Sure Lurkalot: I just got it in firefox with AdB+ and also noscript, NYT untrusted. Those are my defaults for NYT, and I get all pure text, but no interactives or external illustrations like maps. Noscript is the first add-on I install to a new firefox.
Gvg
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: I am really sorry. Let us know if we can help.
Gvg
I get the NYT digital for free, paid for by my employer the University of Florida. The NYTs has always pushed to get itself noticed by students too. I get Wall Street journal too. If you are a student, chances are you need it for writing papers. I have to pay for WaPo, which I do.
When I was a student, the big Florida cities also gave away paper copies free on campus, trying to earn the trust of future readers, so I could read Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville news. I don’t remember if Miami did it too. Now that is gone and the newspaper racks are unused. The papers have gotten worse. The local paper is thin and useless. They don’t seem to have staff to cover much, don’t do it well and are really expensive.
What I object to on electronic papers is the lack of a table of content. I get a selection of headlines which make it hard to find what I would be interested in, so most of it is wasted reporting. They could do that if they wanted, but seem to want to steer me rather than let me see. I won’t fill out interest surveys though because businesses always sell that kind of info.
Platonicspoof
@Another Scott:
Thanks.
Last December Wonkette also had an article on Noem and the death of her 98 year old grandmother:
Still very speculative that the grandmother actually died of COVID, but it’s now important that we know Noem will use her office to interfere in bureaucratic decisions about her family, and possibly her political future.
raven
The Commander has died!
Barry
“@James E Powell:
“I followed the same path as you. I did not understand then and I do not understand now the vendetta against the Clintons, but that’s when I started losing any trust in their reporting.”
The Clintons were hicks from Flyover country.
Barry
@Sure Lurkalot: call your local public library.
debbie
Sorry I missed this last night, but it seems ironic to me that the NYT’s plan to improve confidence in their journalism focuses on doing more of what cost them their reputation to begin with.
different-church-lady
When your head is that far up your own ass everything looks like a colon.
different-church-lady
@TriassicSands:
Like the lovely feature articles about wealthy Manhattan power mommies and their high-end addiction problems?
PAM Dirac
@raven:
Oh no! I guess he’ll be lost in the ozone forever now.
Capri
As a liberal resident of a very red state, I think there is a market for the NYT. In states that are 60-40 red/blue that’s 40% of the population that might be interested in national news reported by an honest broker. The 40% is a forgotten minority – instead all flyover citizens are portrayed as drooling MAGA racists. Up to this point, the NYT has pandered to the 60% who are never going to subscribe rather than cultivating the 40% who could be persuaded.
That’s why I have a digital subscription to the Washington Post.
J R in WV
@Ms. Deranged in AZ:
Ms Deranged in AZ… so sorry for your son’s loss and the effect that is having on him. So glad he still has a mom with common sense to rely on going forward. Take care!!
Lacuna Synecdoche
@frosty:
I feel your pain. It’s a shame our high bar is so middling, but right now WaPo is the best we’ve got in the way of a mainstream paper of record.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@prostratedragon:
You and me both. NoScript, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Dark Reader, and my VPN’s add-on, then change the default search engine to DuckDuckGo.
I wish I felt comfortable recommending NoScript to others, but, for most people, it just requires more interaction than they’re comfortable with to keep it setup correctly.
I don’t use uBlock much myself, but I hear it’s probably the best option for people who are technically disinclined.