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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by hef19898 on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#21566987)
But that's a strawman argument. By artificially setting the bar that high for entities like the NYT to be allowed to publish stories like that you make it impossible to publish any journalistic piece at all. And that higj bar allows everybody else to just past everything underneath it. A slippery slope if you ask me.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by philwelch on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:01PM (#21567068)
They can publish whatever they want. It’s a free country. And I’m free to disbelieve them or distrust their motivations.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by hef19898 on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:10PM (#21567180)
Not arguing with that. The thing with free speech so is to be aware of the consequences for society if the public discurs becomes based on opinions, distrust and partisanship instead of civility and facts.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by philwelch on Monday November 18, 2019 @04:14PM (#21568202)
The New York Times does not have a monopoly in facts.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by zepto on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:52PM (#21575881)
Seems like the onus is on the NYT to be more scrupulous in establishing that.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by zepto on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:27PM (#21568821)
Who is saying they shouldn’t be allowed to publish stories?

That is the straw man.

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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by eanzenberg on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:18PM (#21567247)
Or, that seeking profit isn't inherently evil? Maybe it's working as designed? Poor journalism will suffer profits (at least we hope). Good journalism will attract more profits.
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Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17... by jonathankoren on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:32PM (#21567371)
That’s also a straw man, since literally no one is making that statement.

The point of contention is whether after arguing that a tax cut was needed to do capital investment, did the savings from the tax cut actually go to capital investment, or merely financial trickery of stock buy backs as the critics of the tax cut predicted.

Literally everything else is a distraction.

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