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SV isn't the first to achieve this sort of collective bozobitting of the NYT... I think econtwitter got there first. Krugman is ok for the school of thought he represents, but "the economy according to the NYT" bears little resemblance to "the economy according to economists"
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It's very patchy though. The internal culture war they have going on between the old guard and the entryist upstarts who've made inroads has left some coverage areas/beats untouched, torched other areas entirely, and left other areas in some sort of partisan-controlled state
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It would be interesting to see a map of say several dozen major areas/beats, with a map of current control state.
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A couple of years ago, a journalist (with a different bias) got in touch with me in pursuit of this kind of feature for another major newspaper. I gave him a couple of hours time and also directed him to a representative sampling of friends across the map. That piece got axed.
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He was a sincere, thoughtful guy, and though I didn't quite like the tack he was planning to take, I thought he approached the matter with enough good faith to help out. What I did't anticipate was how hard it would be to simply convey the rawest of basics.
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Ie, dramatis personae, major events and schisms, my own take on people/threads (being careful to separate information from opinion). But despite my effort, when he tried to recap for me to confirm he'd understood, I realized he hadn't. A lot of subtle distortions had crept it.
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There was no malice... just the deep difficulty of trying to convey an inside view of a cultural narrative to an outside view informed by a pre-existing motivated perspective (which isn't a bad thing -- it's inevitable... the key is to be aware of it try to account for it)
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That experience convinced me to adopt the "willing to be misunderstood" stance. Explaining yourself is far harder than merely setting up basic defenses against hostile/malicious misunderstandings.
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CNN shares a basic positioning with the NYT, but has so far remained relatively free of the dynamics that have taken over the latter. I think because a) they are TV-centric and b) less insular via a revolving door relationship with a broader sample of establishment center-left.
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They do trigger dissonance, but it's... so familiar at this point, that counter-programming with what I know from elsewhere is almost second nature. Aside from occasionally googling new guests on shows to see where they crept in from, not much priors-updating needed now