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by scottlocklin 2748 days ago
That we couldn't possibly put any stinky, messy factories up and manufacture in the US. Because Gassée had a hard time with screwdrivers and "you can't bring manufacturing back." All that must be done in China now you see, because reasons

It's definitely an agenda, definitely pushed, and fairly absurd.

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Are there any specific facts in the article that are wrong? Because otherwise, you just seem to be arguing that any facts that may be used to advance some side of some argument must not be published? That would seem to succeed only if the NYT were to ship a bunch of blank pages, seven times a week.

Here’s also a story, just three weeks old, that paints manufacturing in the US in a positive light: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/nyregion/the-brooklyn-arm...

The NYT seems to (also) suck at coordinating their “agenda pushing”. It’s almost as if it’s a newspaper publishing ideas that don’t always neatly align to ideology.