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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by skissane on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:29PM (#42952962)
That’s not really comparing apples-to-apples though: a cable TV network aimed at the undereducated masses versus a prestigious broadsheet newspaper pitched at the educated classes

There’s plenty of right-of-centre magazines and websites aimed at educated right-wingers: e.g. First Things, Commentary, The American Conservative, the Spectator

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by CamperBob2 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:24PM (#42953741)
Fair point, but it was the OP who first mentioned Fox News and the NYT in the same sentence.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by skissane on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:30PM (#42954674)
Right, but I think their point was that they are both biased just in opposite directions, and bringing the orthogonal difference in target audience education level into it is arguably confusing things

Maybe a better demonstration of their point might be comparing NYT/WaPo to the WSJ

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by lazyeye on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:36PM (#42953919)
I read a book on the history of the NYT. They would market themselves to advertisers with "our readers have the highest disposable income of aby news source in America". It's an interesting reflection on the modern Democrat party and politics in general, that the NYT now leans left.
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