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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by LAC-Tech on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:01AM (#33463694)
When it comes to the business of telling you what the nature of the world is and how to think, it's really impossible for me to conjure up something more authoritative than the New York times.

Sure there's people on social media saying things, but the stuff that's an echo of the NYT sounds right and true, the stuff that's against it sounds low-brow and coarse.

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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by mindslight on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:33AM (#33467361)
The New York Times sets the singular official narrative. Faceboot and its ilk shape the many counter reactions to it. Despite being comprised of multiple journalists, everyone basically thinks of NYT as a singular entity with its own reputation. On Faceboot, memes carry the social proof of your own personal relationships. And the most worrisome is that people know NYT's narratives are not their own thoughts, whereas people think the narratives they got from Faceboot are.
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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by anticrisis on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:11PM (#33472152)
That is your educated perspective. A larger share of Americans place greater trust in what they hear about public issues on social media from interesting personalities than in the NYT, sadly.
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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by froh on Saturday November 05, 2022 @03:47AM (#33478957)
the NYTimes at this time has 4.sth Mio subscribers and 10k videos, indeed:

https://youtube.com/c/nytimes

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