Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself
by flyinglizard on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:20PM
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I’m a NYT subscriber - NYT is downright obsessed with Trump, and the all consuming anguish from the Democrats. I’m not saying right or wrong, I’m just saying that reading their opinion section - where editorial bias can _really_ come into play - you may find most opinions revolve around Trump and his policies.
It is so ingrained into the newspaper that they cover Trump negatively even when he does something agreeable just because what he stands for.
I’m not an American, so no horse in the game - but this is obsessive.
I am a subscriber to the NYT as well and lean center right politically. The NYT is without question the best newspaper in the country, and worth reading despite their editorial slant. Ignore the front page and the op-ed section and their coverage is wider, deeper And better written than any other US newspaper. (The Washington Post is good for politics, but mostly cause it’s the local paper in a one company town.)
But TFA isn’t about bias so much as the the left leaning press eating itself with doctrinaire purges.
NYT's most passionate tribe is not the Left, they're not left enough for them. But they're not playing to a tribe, but the passion itself. Seattle is no longer front page news for the NYTs because articles talking about hippies sitting around in drum circles not beating people up, or being beat up by police, is boring.