you guys, stop reading NYTimes, just stop paying attention to it
we're just gonna disagree on this. the NYTimes has been bad for decades, but its decline into Fox News tier has been the characteristic shift in that organization over the last 5 years or so. they've tilted hard into grievance driven identity politics and unfounded rumoring
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their embrace of conspiratorial thinking on Trump's connection with Russia is especially telling. there's likely something going on there but the Times doesn't really know anything and a lot of their reporting on it is amplifying conspiracy theories from known grifters
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What do you mean by unfounded rumoring? I'm 100% with you on their coverage of Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez being awful, but I think it's useful have a distinction between truth/bias. If you wanna drop it that's fine obv
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if you know what you're looking for you'll see it all over their politics coverage. anytime you see a news article with a quote from "a high ranking white house official" otherwise unnamed, consider that a rumor, a leak, or a lie.
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That's standard journalistic practice when reporting on info from a source that doesn't want to be named. If it's a genuine leak, it's their job to cultivate sources like that. I get what you mean about reporting on rumors, though.
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