Jeez, grey lady. what did iceland do to you.
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Just came across an 1874 piece in which the NYT says of Iceland: "What interest, then, can anybody have in the fact that these far-away impoverished people are celebrating the one-thousandth anniversary of the settlement of their miserable little island?" https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1874/08/10/79227412.pdf …pic.twitter.com/3bpU5VQuLb
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Ryan is finding a TON more examples of this 19th century grudge the new york times had against iceland and I NEED TO KNOW WHYhttps://twitter.com/nytryan/status/1110936416891162624 …
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1874 was the year Iceland got limited home rule from Denmark. Were we ... opposed to that for some reason?
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for the record the modern new york times has written many fine pieces about Iceland. I used some of them to plan my trip there in December. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/travel/iceland-52-places.html … and https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/t-magazine/travel/reykjavik-iceland-guide.html … andhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-reforestation.html …
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This is so good!!
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why were we so mad at iceland!
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What was the Brooklyn scandal of 1874?
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Apparently, that: https://archive.org/details/truehistoryofbro00mars/page/495 … (And the book about it is 600+ pages long. Must have been a big thing at the time)
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What was the Brooklyn scandal?
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