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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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    3. 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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      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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        1. b michael‏ @bmichael 7 Aug 2019
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          Since I don’t have infinite money I cancelled

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        1. Matt‏ @jonesm80 7 Aug 2019
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          Nah. The "kerfuffle" is about a paper that goes out of it's way to employ terrible opinion writers, both-sides racism, and talks down to it's subscribers because we aren't employed by the NYT so we can't possibly understand how difficult their jobs are.

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        1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 7 Aug 2019
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          If you don't live in NYC you should prioritize subscribing to a local news source.

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        1. cams‏ @camsteh 7 Aug 2019
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          the new york times actively normalizes and gives mainstream acceptance of white nationalism.

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        1. whodunit?‏ @DawgsWillHunt 7 Aug 2019
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          Your're wrong. Its about them writing an inflammatory, false headlines, coverage of HER emails, declaring Trump has no connection with Russia, writing about clinton donors but arguing Trump donors shouldn't be revealed, 20,000 Trump WWC supporter stories.

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        1. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 7 Aug 2019
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          🤔Fwiw, the main reason I don't read the @nytimes much nowadays is that they AREN'T "burying the lede" much anymore, & the @BretStephensNYT's comes off as too busy doing the networking aspects of their job to want to catch flak for the pieces of swill they have to concoct.

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        1.  ☮️ 💚 💛 💙 💖Anti Pro-RapeJDVance‏ @IndivCincy 7 Aug 2019
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          We don't expect a newspaper to lead any resistance. We do expect a newspaper to not run misleading headlines that minimize the threat and undermine resistance to it.

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        2. Robert Waldmann‏ @robertwaldmann 7 Aug 2019
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          You present a false dichotomy between the Times as it is and a resistence paper. The Times could also report the news without "tropism". The headline writer did not believe the headline was the truth. The rule is not to report the truth as one perceives it. Why not ?

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        3. Robert Waldmann‏ @robertwaldmann 7 Aug 2019
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          I think the key problem is really that the refs have been worked. Timesmen (especially Baquet) are terrified of being accused of a liberal bias. That the Times has a liberal bias is a core tenet of US conservatism, so there is no limit to the right wing bias this fear can cause.

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        1. DOD‏ @dcodea 7 Aug 2019
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          not sure how any of this justifies giving them money. giving them your time, your attention, maybe.

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