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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by bb123 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:01AM (#20572470)
Does anyone know why the NYT has this agenda?
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by amfsn on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:39AM (#20572619)
NYT has an anti-tech agenda in general because tech is killing newspapers.

It's also a contrarian position because most people love their tech, and contrarian positions and outrage drive clicks.

Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by atonse on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:35AM (#20574721)
Uhhh I'm not so sure tech is so innocent here. The honeymoon period with big tech ended after 2016, when society finally realized exactly how much influence big tech has over our minds, and how they absolutely show no responsibility towards the power they wield to alter people's realities, instead hiding behind silly excuses about just being platforms.

This isn't just about contrarian views. This is the fact that, thanks to big tech, any nut job can have the same real-estate and influence as a more established journalistic organization that has many people that internally also argue about how to convey messaging to the public.

I say all this as someone who frequently criticizes the mainstream media for also drumming up drama where it doesn't exist, and misinforming the public. So I'm hardly a cheerleader for them. But at least there is some sort of self-policing going on, and a realization of the responsibility they carry in society. There isn't much of that the big tech companies like Facebook.

Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by mensetmanusman on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:14AM (#20573341)
Not just newspapers. Warren (and now many others) are interested in breaking up large companies because their power threatens the governments power. Articles like these help test the waters since NYT supports the left more than the right.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:23AM (#20572804)
It's not just the NYT, we see it in the UK media as well.
Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by Mindwipe on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:49AM (#20572906)
The Times especially, to the point it's reporting on anything technical is flat out falsehoods a lot of the time.