This is wild that the nytimes of all places is reporting on this. I would have thought other places would have done so, not the times with all their political and corporate baggage.
Something I try to do is go by the byline, not the outlet. I'm not familiar with Leif Weatherby or Benjamin Recht, but this seems like a solid expose and if I had run across the Axios piece they're talking about, I doubt I would have dug into the source. NYT also hosts Bret Stephens' opinions. Does that mean that NYT is untrustworthy? Yes. Does that mean they publish nothing of value? I would say no. I don't think any news brandname deserves trust, since they can be bought and sold just like any brandname. People, especially journalists, can also be bought, but people tend to be much more protective of their public image than corporations, and that constrains them in helpful ways.
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M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 125d
This is wild that the nytimes of all places is reporting on this. I would have thought other places would have done so, not the times with all their political and corporate baggage.
Some of the comments are very NY times though
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 125d
Something I try to do is go by the byline, not the outlet. I'm not familiar with Leif Weatherby or Benjamin Recht, but this seems like a solid expose and if I had run across the Axios piece they're talking about, I doubt I would have dug into the source. NYT also hosts Bret Stephens' opinions. Does that mean that NYT is untrustworthy? Yes. Does that mean they publish nothing of value? I would say no. I don't think any news brandname deserves trust, since they can be bought and sold just like any brandname. People, especially journalists, can also be bought, but people tend to be much more protective of their public image than corporations, and that constrains them in helpful ways.
bitMasque@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 125d
Thanks for creating this community; it'll no doubt prove more and more important as we progress through this era of techno-grifting. You've just earned your first subscriber!
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 125d
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cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 125d
This is such an obviously bad and stupid idea and yet here we are with outlets actually doing this exact thing.