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It’s amazing how all of a sudden this board has gone from the opinion that the NYT is trash to quoting every single article the NYT publishes about it.

This may have something to do with the NYT articles (at least this one) on the shooting being more who what where when why and less OpEd pieces masquerading as News.

My personal political views have been at odds with those of the NYT since graduating college in the late 80's. Yet, I still read the Times and actually subscribed to the Sunday edition up until about 10 years ago. My politics haven't changed much in that time. Theirs hasn't either, but they have blatantly chosen to take it from the OpEd page where it belonged and insert it through out the entire paper. As a Journalism grad, it really sucks to have watched it happen with them and 95% of all other forms of print media as well.

And to be fair, it has happened in the fewer right leaning publications in existence as well.

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Posted by Cymry Teigr

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 9:41 pm to Basura Blanco

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This may have something to do with the NYT articles (at least this one) on the shooting being more who what where when why and less OpEd pieces masquerading as News.

I agree, but at the same time their current reporting on this amounts to nothing more than sensationalism quoting statements (sometimes partial) that are the obvious direct result of a whole lot of finger pointing that’s going on right now between all parties.

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see the progress from the line that the police waited an hour, to all of a sudden the police releasing the info that the door was unlocked shifting the blame partially to one teacher, and so on.

And it’s very effective as a form of media reporting to amass support for their ultimate goal which we definitely know the NYT has as regards their stance on the Second Amendment.

If they keep the ball rolling enough they garner far more support this way with lots of smaller groups outraged, than what eventually will play out to be people’s final sentiments as to where the majority of blame lies.

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Posted by Eurocat

Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 3:49 am to Basura Blanco

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My personal political views have been at odds with those of the NYT since graduating college in the late 80's. Yet, I still read the Times and actually subscribed to the Sunday edition up until about 10 years ago. My politics haven't changed much in that time. Theirs hasn't either, but they have blatantly chosen to take it from the OpEd page where it belonged and insert it through out the entire paper. As a Journalism grad, it really sucks to have watched it happen with them and 95% of all other forms of print media as well. And to be fair, it has happened in the fewer right leaning publications in existence as well.

Happening all throughout the media. People no longer want balance, they want THEIR point of view to dominate not the an article that says "on the one hand this....on the other hand that...".

They measure TV viewing with people meters. I know this for a fact that when Fox viewers are show liberal stuff or vice-versa on MSNBC there is massive turning off of the show.

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