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Re:Snowden Is Said to Renew Plea for Asylum in Russia by mark_l_watson on Friday July 12, 2013 @03:31PM (#6034640)
Long time NYT subscriber here. I am fairly sure I am going to cancel my subscription. I don't like that they didn't even include Snowden's short statement; wasn't that newsworthy? I thought the opening sentence in the article did not set an impartial tone -far from it.

This reminded me of when the NYT helped the Bush administration make a case for invading Iraq.

The writing in the NYT is good and I generally enjoy it, but I want impartial news coverage that seems easier to get by a random sampling from a few international news sources on any story I am interested in.

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Re:Snowden Is Said to Renew Plea for Asylum in Russia by mark_l_watson on Friday July 12, 2013 @03:48PM (#6034762)
A comment on my comment: I just looked at other news media in the USA and a sampling from countries that are close allies of the USA. The NYT article was the worst as far as censoring the relevant news, that is, what Snowden said. All other news stories were both critical of Snowden, yet covered the news without censorship.

Loud flushing noise: my cancelled New York Times subscription.

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