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Now this isn't specific to the NYT, but the NYT has absolutely been guilty of sensationalism: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511... That's different than uncomfortable challenging, comfort zones and so forth. Here we see misleading headlines to drive traffic. Next, I lean left and yet found the NYT obsessively copycatting Democratic institutional thinking: supporting corrupt NY Mayors, relentlessly defending lost Presidential candidates despite nefarious behaviors, and in years past as Chomsky demonstrates, beating the drums of war in foreign policy. I found them obsessing over race and gender divides, even if it meant eclipsing greater threats. Transgender policy and statues, in. Redistribution of wealth to the rich... too complicated to obsess over. They've run negative coverage on people I admire, like Chomsky and Sanders, because those buck the trends within a fractured Left. Next, I live in NY and find their local coverage heavily biased with stories of the idle rich. I'd love to send examples of this, but I'm pretty sure I have one article left to read this month. I pay for a 15 dollar a month, Kindle subscription to the Financial Times because of the thoughtful, in-depth analysis, sometimes with multiple viewpoints in different articles on one topic, and a FAR less American-centric information resource. When it comes to politics, being culturally myopic is a sin that the NYT is in my unhumble opinion guilty of. |