The American Press Is Destroying Itself

Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by flyinglizard on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:20PM (#23513315)

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.

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Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by JackFr on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:43PM (#23514443)

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.

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Re:The American Press Is Destroying Itself by klipt on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:57PM (#23514495)

Maybe because Trump lowered taxes on people in red states by raising taxes on New Yorkers.

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