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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by vl on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:48PM (#25479354)
> Some people here are saying they shouldn't be praised for the retraction because retracting an error is merely doing what a publication should do.

We should be praising five-year-olds for brushing their teeth, but from adults we expect it by default. And while NYT went down in quality in the last few years, let’s not treat it as if it is a five-year-old.

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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by kergonath on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:14PM (#25479625)
They are still better than most of their competition, even the non-lunatic ones like Bloomberg or Forbes. We should praise the system when it works, when you have a systemic failure it's too late.
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