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by Dan_JiuJitsu 2408 days ago
The NYT is a business supported by employing authors to write articles and sell advertisements to people who want to read those articles. To claim that NYT as a business has nothing at all to do with it's product, that it payed to create, curate and publish is clearly nonsense.
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It's not clearly nonsense if you ever worked in journalism.

That's like all those conspiracy theories about anti-virus companies putting out viruses to boost sales.

/Worked in journalism.