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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by tensor on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:19AM (#26129904)
It's pretty hard to find high quality alternatives. There is the wall street journal, maybe a few others, but not many. I personally read a few high quality news sources and science journals.

Inexplicably many here seem to think that random blog posts are somehow remotely equivalent. I value opinion at zero, and trust a random person to do quality research at about zero too. Trust is earned.

When random internet opinion becomes "news" I suppose we really are in a post truth world.

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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by qPM9l3XJrF on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:06AM (#26130080)
I've come to respect The Economist and The Financial Times. Their articles don't go viral as much--I suspect because they aren't as optimized for virality ;-)
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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by afiori on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:24AM (#26130161)
Ironically Scott Alexander has a couple of good posts about this topic

a discussion on how big institutions that are telling you the truth are competing both to keep their position and tell you the truth with a focus on medicine

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

A more poetic version discussing the concept in general.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by jcranmer on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:52AM (#26130034)
Washington Post? It's long been essentially the biggest rival to the NYT in terms of national political coverage, and my opinion is that as of late, it's been higher quality than the NYT.
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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by mrgordon on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:29AM (#26129947)
The WSJ has much worse editors than the NYTimes. They really allow a lot of bias.
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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by kortilla on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:37AM (#26129975)
So does the NYT. The bias of the times just happens to be really well aligned with mainstream liberals in the US so it’s much harder to notice if you’re in that camp.
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