[agjacobson]

In 2016, China landed a robotic rover on the moon. The NY Times had fairly extensive coverage. For a solid month, the main article was in the top ten of forwarded articles, assuring that all nytimes.com readers would repeatedly see it in a prominent sidebar. This is unusual behavior. NY Times readers are interested, but easily jaded by space travel. And nothing lasts forever a month.

Finally, I complained to the nytimes.com ombudsman. Gone in a day! Someone there must have agreed with me. Click farm behavior.

[metaphor]

>> This is unusual behavior.

>> Click farm behavior.

2010 U.S. Census reported[1] 695,000 who self-identify as Chinese in the NY metro area alone...never mind LA, Bay area, Boston, and Seattle...only a few of the largest, wealthiest, highly educated cities in the nation. Are you sure?

[1] https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-11.pdf

[ouid]

I think if the nytimes were to actually have responded to agjacobsons claim, it would have been with an internal investigation, and then any action would have been taken only after the results of that investigation.