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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2019

      1. Is the New York Times an often irritating newspaper, one that is often not up to the task of covering Trump era? Sure. Is it worth cancelling your subscription? No, the act of cancelling is based on misunderstanding what the paper is all about.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2019

      2. The Times isn't, despite its own marketing, a "resistance" newspaper. It's a resolutely establishment newspaper with a tropism towards both-sides centrism. It's also a good newspaper that publish a lot of good journalism amid the usual assortment of access driven fluff.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2019

      3. Someone (Dwight Macdonald? Irving Howe?) said in the 1930s Marxists would read the Times the way medieval Christians read Aristotle, as an important authority even if a pagan one. That's a good way to read the paper: a source of information from a point-of-view not our own.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2019

          4. Ultimately the kerfuffle about the Times is about misunderstanding the paper & the sources of resistance. The paper is just a paper. Resistance can use stuff in the paper but the sources of resistance are elsewhere. I explain more here: https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-times-headline-trump/ …

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        2. UWS Pete‏ @UWSPete 7 Aug 2019
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          For many, it's the crossword puzzle that locks them in.

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        3. Stephen Bruckert‏ @str1cken 7 Aug 2019
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          I’ve cancelled my subscription three times now since 2016 but my wife’s deep yearning for the crossword puzzle keeps me coming back and I’m not even joking.

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        2. Mister Fengi‏ @MrFengi 7 Aug 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Apprciate point, but NYT once had a public editor & at least feigned more concern & reflection on responsibility of narrative choices. Even with Judith Miller, there was some recognition of fault. James Bennet getting OpEd signaled rise of defiant dishonest ideological faction

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        3. Mister Fengi‏ @MrFengi 7 Aug 2019
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          Bennet hired Stephens, whose first column was climate denying lies. And the entire paper has done this: Weiss's "Intellectual Dark Web" was an openly ideological narrative to serve a specific agenda. NYT may be more than its worst, but worst are well paid with little oversight

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        1. Ghost of Kyiv‏ @Samizdat24 7 Aug 2019
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          Doesn't the WaPo fulfill this mission just as well, if not better, with far fewer instances of head scratching nonsense?

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        2. Chris Sturr‏ @ChrisSturr 7 Aug 2019
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          Yes. But you have to read different parts of the NY Times and the WSJ and the FT differently. The business sections are more likely to be accurate because businesspeople need to be able to rely on its accuracy. But the op-ed and political sections have ideological functions.

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        1. Midnight Rambler‏ @mramblr 7 Aug 2019
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          What is the point of view? I don’t see any except for amoral cowardice, and that’s certainly not a viewpoint I need to hear.

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        1. Forrest Chump‏ @ForrestChump_ 8 Aug 2019
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          Aristotle was dead. The Times is alive and it’s business model is built around a bizarre codependent trolling relationship with its subscribers. It’s a really unhealthy ecosystem.

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